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Police Identification and Records Officers
Collect evidence at crime scene, classify and identify fingerprints, and photograph evidence for use in criminal and civil cases.
10 main tasks · most important first
Your main tasks and AI
Importance- 01Photograph crime or accident scenes for evidence records.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 02Maintain records of evidence and write and review reports.AI could speed this up a lot
- 03Submit evidence to supervisors, crime labs, or court officials for legal proceedings.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 04Testify in court and present evidence.Mostly human for now
- 05Look for trace evidence, such as fingerprints, hairs, fibers, or shoe impressions, using alternative light sources when necessary.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 06Dust selected areas of crime scene and lift latent fingerprints, adhering to proper preservation procedures.Mostly human for now
- 07Analyze and process evidence at crime scenes, during autopsies, or in the laboratory, wearing protective equipment and using powders and chemicals.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 08Package, store and retrieve evidence.Mostly human for now
- 09Process film and prints from crime or accident scenes.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 10Take fingerprints.No rating yet
Tasks from O*NET® 31.0 (US Department of Labor, CC BY 4.0, changed by us), most important first. “Already use” comes from Anthropic’s data on real work chats with Claude; “could speed up” from task ratings made with GPT-4 in 2023.
Four studies, side by side
None is a forecast of job loss4%of this job’s work time goes to tasks that people already do with Claude at work, counting tasks where AI only helps as half (2026).Anthropic, 2026
35%of this job’s tasks an AI model could do in half the time, counting tasks that need extra tools as half (rated in 2023).Eloundou, Manning, Mishkin and Rock, 2023
Above 48% of jobsin how often and how well AI helped with this job’s work in Microsoft Copilot chats (2024 data).Microsoft Research (Tomlinson et al.), 2025
Above 46% of jobsin how much of this job’s physical work robots have been shown to do, from factories to homes (2026).Anthropic, 2026
Your human edge
The main tasks with no real AI use seen and no big speed-up expected. This is where your skill counts most today.
- Testify in court and present evidence.
- Dust selected areas of crime scene and lift latent fingerprints, adhering to proper preservation procedures.
- Package, store and retrieve evidence.