AIFoPa-2025-0003
Date of Record: 31 Dec 2025
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The Department Does Not Employ Amphibious Officers
An AI report-writing tool transcribed a police call with a Disney film playing in the background. The film went into the official report.
In December 2025 the Heber City Police Department in Utah began testing two AI report-writing products. Draft One is made by Axon, which manufactures the Taser and most body cameras used by American law enforcement. Code Four was built by two 19-year-old MIT dropouts.
The premise of both is straightforward. An officer’s body camera records an incident. The system listens to the audio. The system writes the report. The officer reviews it, corrects it if necessary, and submits it.
It works. Sergeant Rick Keel reports saving six to eight hours per week.
An officer responded to a call at which Disney’s 2009 animated musical comedy The Princess and the Frog was playing in the background. The body camera recorded the encounter. Draft One processed the audio. It did not distinguish between the events of the police call and the events of the film.
It incorporated the film’s narrative into the official police report. The report stated that the officer had transformed into a frog.
The report was corrected. The department does not employ amphibious officers. It has not done so at any time.
Sergeant Keel said the body camera software and the AI report-writing software had “picked up on the movie that was playing in the background.” The movie is set in 1920s New Orleans. A prince is turned into a frog. A waitress kisses him and becomes one too.
“That’s when we learned the importance of correcting these AI-generated reports,” Sergeant Keel said. The department plans to keep using AI report writing. It has not yet decided which product.
Draft One is built on OpenAI’s large language models. It has been adopted by law enforcement agencies across the country.
Critics of the technology make a further point.
A frog transformation is easy to catch. Their concern is the hallucinations that are not easy to catch. The plausible ones. The subtle ones. The ones that add a word like “aggressive” or “threatening” to a description of a suspect’s behavior. An officer reviewing quickly might not correct it, and it then becomes part of the permanent legal record.
Such incidents are not filed here. None has yet reached the Bureau as a documented case. The Bureau is watching.