Will AI replace Police Identification and Records Officers?
AI reaches some of this job’s work, but most of it stays with people.
32/100
Moderate exposure
More exposed to AI than 50% of US workers.
- AI already used in
- 0% of the work
- As AI tools mature: up to
- 58% of the work
What the job involves
Collect evidence at crime scene, classify and identify fingerprints, and photograph evidence for use in criminal and civil cases.
Where AI reaches the work
The job’s main tasks, heaviest first, by how far AI reaches them.
Within reach(9)
- Submit evidence to supervisors, crime labs, or court officials for legal proceedings.
- Maintain records of evidence and write and review reports.
- Photograph crime or accident scenes for evidence records.
- Package, store and retrieve evidence.
- Process film and prints from crime or accident scenes.
and 4 more
Out of reach(6)
- Testify in court and present evidence.
- Analyze and process evidence at crime scenes, during autopsies, or in the laboratory, wearing protective equipment and using powders and chemicals.
- Look for trace evidence, such as fingerprints, hairs, fibers, or shoe impressions, using alternative light sources when necessary.
- Dust selected areas of crime scene and lift latent fingerprints, adhering to proper preservation procedures.
- Perform emergency work during off-hours.
and 1 more
Also called
Crime Lab Analyst (Crime Laboratory Analyst) · Crime Scene Investigator (CSI) · Crime Scene Technician · Forensic Specialist · Accident Investigator · Crime Lab Analyst · CSI · Fingerprint Classifier
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What these numbers mean
The score is the share of this job’s work, weighted by how important and frequent each task is, that AI could do in half the time: tasks an AI model could do alone count in full, tasks that need software built on AI count half.
“AI already used” is the share of the work in tasks where people are recorded using AI today. “As AI tools mature” counts every task AI could halve, with or without extra software.
The percentile compares the score with every job’s, weighted by how many people in the US do each one. Exposure means AI could change how the work is done, not that the job goes away. These are estimates for the typical job, not predictions.
Sources
- O*NET 31.0 Database, U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration
- GPTs are GPTs: Labor market impact potential of LLMs (task labels), Eloundou, Manning, Mishkin & Rock (2023), OpenAI and University of Pennsylvania
- Anthropic Economic Index: labor market impacts (task penetration), Anthropic
- Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (national and metropolitan areas), U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics