Government and public sector, security and defence
Air-gapped police interview transcription
Can police transcribe interviews with AI on disconnected infrastructure?
Yes. Katonic transcribes and summarises police interviews, calls and field audio on the agency's own GPUs with no internet connection, and logs every model call. Officers get searchable transcripts without typing them, and no audio or text leaves the agency.
At a glance
| Industry | Government and public sector, security and defence |
|---|---|
| Who it is for | Chief Information Officer, Head of Digital, investigations leads |
| Data that stays in place | Audio, transcripts, summaries and the model call log |
| Runs air-gapped | Yes, this is the intended mode |
| Outputs | Searchable transcripts and summaries |
| Infrastructure | HPE Private Cloud AI, or HPE GPU servers in an HPE AI Factory design |
The problem
Police and public-safety agencies record interviews, calls and field audio that can never go to a public cloud service.
Officers transcribe by hand, backlogs grow, and the audio stays unsearchable. Any system that helps must run fully disconnected and keep an evidential record.
How it works
- Audio is loaded onto the agency's own network.
- A speech-to-text model runs on the agency's GPUs, with no connection to the internet.
- The platform produces a transcript and a summary for each recording.
- Officers search across transcripts instead of replaying audio.
- Every model call is logged, so the agency can show how each transcript was produced.
On HPE infrastructure
On HPE Private Cloud AI
HPE Private Cloud AI is HPE's turnkey private AI system, co-engineered with NVIDIA. Katonic AI is a partner in the HPE Unleash AI program. On Private Cloud AI, Katonic connects to the models the system serves and adds the agent platform on top. The speech and language models are served on the system inside the agency's secure environment.
On HPE GPU servers
Customers who build their own estate on HPE GPU servers, as part of an HPE AI Factory design, get compute, storage and networking from HPE. Katonic supplies the software layer above the hardware: open-weight models served on the customer's GPUs, the AI gateway, the agent platform and governance. The whole stack is installed on GPU servers in a disconnected environment, with no dependency on an outside service at run time.
More on both routes: Katonic AI on HPE.
Where it stands
Piloted with a national police service.
Questions and answers
Does it need an internet connection?
No. The models and the platform run entirely on the agency's own infrastructure and are designed for disconnected operation.
Who decides how transcripts are used?
The agency. The platform produces the transcript and logs every model call, and the agency sets its own review and evidence rules.
Does any audio leave the agency?
No. Audio, transcripts and summaries stay on the agency's own systems.
Can the same platform do more than transcription?
Yes. The same installation can run other agents, such as search over case material, under the same controls.