SARA - Autonomous Anti-Extortion Swarm for Public Safety

Autonomous multi-agent copilot built on Gemini 3.7 & Google ADK that turns 48h of extortion triage into 1.8s of forensic action for law enforcement under Zero-PII privacy.

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💡 Inspiration: Breaking the 85% Silence of Extortion & The Impunity Funnel

Extortion and violent racketeering have escalated into an illicit industry that paralyzes emerging economies. Cross-referencing official 2026 data from the Public Ministry (MPFN), Ministry of the Interior (MININTER/SIDPOL), Judiciary (Justicia TV / Flagrancy Courts), and the Peruvian Institute of Economics (IPE) exposes Peru's 4-Level Extortion Impunity Funnel:

  1. 👥 1. Real Street Extortions: ~200,000 Real Attacks / Year (85% Dark Figure / Terror)
    Over 85% of victims never report due to mortal terror of corrupt identity leaks and deadly retaliation.
  2. 👮 2. Police Stations (SIDPOL): ~19,000 Formal Complaints (Paper Limbo)
    The few who report find their cases trapped in bureaucratic police limbo without immediate digital forensics or asset freezes.
  3. ⚖️ 3. Public Ministry (MPFN): ~26,000 Crimes / Year (12,634 1st Sem. Report)
    Paper-based police memos arrive weeks late, long after the 48-hour flagrancy window expires.
  4. 👨‍⚖️ 4. Judiciary Flagrancy Courts: Only ~240 Cases Judged / Year (0.12% Real Resolution / 99.88% Impunity)
    Achieving an appalling 0.12% real judicial resolution rate (only 1 in ~833 real extortions is ever sentenced), leaving a staggering 99.88% systemic impunity rate.

In the public transit sector alone, prosecution records document 214 armed attacks with 283 human casualties (152 killed by contract killers and 131 wounded) against buses and mototaxis. Victims prefer paying daily quotas ("cupos") via mobile wallets (Yape/Plin) rather than risking their families.

We built SARA (Sistema Autónomo de Respuesta Anti-Extorsión) to dismantle this entire bottleneck: an autonomous, sovereign multi-agent cognitive copilot on Google Cloud that empowers citizens to report safely from their phones under a mathematical Zero-PII guarantee (Code CUP) in 7 languages (5 indigenous languages: Quechua, Aimara, Asháninka, Awajún, Shipibo-Konibo, plus Spanish and English), transforming emergency intake into 1.8 seconds of forensic investigation and direct digital transmission to the Specialized Anti-Extortion Prosecution Office (Legislative Decree No. 1735) for immediate conviction in Flagrancy Courts.

🛡️ What SARA Does

SARA acts as the cognitive intelligence and digital forensics copilot for police emergency hotlines (Hotline 111) and police command centers:

  • Inclusive Intake in Native Languages & Anti-Spam (Centinela & Kallpa): Pre-triage acoustic analysis filters prank/silent calls in <300ms (D.S. 020-2020-MTC), while providing empathetic containment over live WebRTC voice (<600ms latency) in Quechua (Cusco-Collao, Chanka, Áncash, Wanka dialects), Aimara, Asháninka, Awajún, Shipibo-Konibo, Spanish, and English (Law No. 29735 & ReNITLI/MINCUL).
  • Cryptographic Zero-PII Vault (Privacy by Design): Victim identities (National ID, Full Name, Phone, Address) are immediately isolated with HMAC-SHA256 and CSPRNG salt upon ingestion, issuing an anonymous Unique Protection Code (CUP). Downstream LLMs strictly process the CUP, preventing internal data exfiltration (Art. 409-C Criminal Code & RCG N.° 1081-2025-CG-PNP).
  • Multimodal Vision OCR & Forensic Extraction (Art. 220 CPP): Automated peritaje of handwritten extortion notes, ammunition casings (SUCAMEC classification), and digital wallet transfers (Yape/Plin/BCP/BBVA) with unalterable SHA-256 digital custody hashes and RFC 3161 timestamps (ISO/IEC 27037).
  • Vida Primero Protocol (UDEX / Central 105 Flash Dispatch): Instant acoustic and visual detection of explosive threats (dynamite, grenades) with a live police takeover bridge and biometric bypass to prioritize human life.
  • Autonomous PIDE Intelligence & Telecom Disassociation: Real-time cross-referencing across RENIEC, INPE (prison calls), and OSIPTEL-RENTESEG. SARA cross-checks Checa tu IMEI and Checa tus Líneas to address Peru's 4,000 daily stolen phones and mass SIM fraud, separating the hijacked communication vector from the financial collection vector to prevent wrongful prosecution of innocent citizens.
  • Formal AHP-Saaty Multicriteria Decision Model (IRCE): Replaces black-box probability with Thomas Saaty's Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP), computing the Extortion Risk and Complexity Indicator (IRCE): IRCE = (0.70 × D_certeza) + (0.30 × D_inminencia) Categorizing cases objectively into High (81–100%), Moderate (51–80%), Low (26–50%), and Dismissal (≤ 25%).
  • Human-in-the-Loop Sovereign Governance & SIDPOL Registration: Police commanders review the structured dossier, select actionable measures (< 3h IMEI cut under Law 32303, 24h UIF bank freeze under D.Leg. 1735 / D.S. 007-2025-JUS), and sign with their Official Police Digital Token (CIP) into the SIDPOL system under Peruvian AI Law No. 31814.
  • Inter-Institutional Fiscal Remission (D.Leg. 1735): An official transmission button delivers the digital prosecution packet and SHA-256 evidence chain directly to the Specialized Anti-Extortion Prosecution Office (FECOR), concluding SARA's police lifecycle.

🏗️ How We Built It: Architecture & Multi-Agent Swarm

SARA is engineered using an enterprise-grade Parallel Multi-Agent Swarm Architecture powered by the Google Agent Development Kit (ADK), the Google GenAI Python SDK, and Gemini 2.5 & 3.7:

1. Cognitive Dual-Brain Routing (agents/router.py)

  • Tier FLASH_FAST (gemini-2.5-flash / gemini-3.7-flash): Real-time acoustic Voice Activity Detection (VAD), anti-spam spoof filtering (<300ms), and empathetic citizen containment in Quechua, Shipibo, Aimara, and Spanish (temperature=0.3, thinking_budget=0).
  • Tier PRO_REASONING (gemini-3.7-pro): Criminal intelligence profiling, Multimodal Vision OCR of handwritten letters and ammunition, and statutory compliance certification against El Peruano & GOB.PE (temperature=0.1, Thinking Budget = 2048 tokens).

2. Parallel Swarm Orchestration (core/orchestrator.py)

Multi-threaded execution pool (ThreadPoolExecutor) executing 4 cognitive branches simultaneously in under 1.8 seconds:

  • Branch 0 (Kallpa / Amparo): De-escalation, emotional containment, and dialect adaptation.
  • Branch 1 (Technical Analyst & PIDE Agent): Cross-referencing RENIEC, OSIPTEL-RENTESEG, and INPE.
  • Branch 2 (Threat Calculator): Deterministic mathematical computation of the Extortion Risk and Complexity Indicator (IRCE under AHP-Saaty: 70% Certainty / 30% Imminence).
  • Branch 3 (Packager & Legal Advisor): Structuring the formal police dossier under Articles 200 & 200-A of the Criminal Code.

3. Sovereign Zero-PII Vault (core/secure_vault.py)

Victim identity is immediately isolated upon ingestion. A cryptographically derived Unique Protection Code (CUP) is generated using HMAC-SHA256 with CSPRNG salt. All downstream LLMs and logs process strictly the CUP code.

4. Real-Time MLOps Supervisor & Resilient Circuit Breaker (core/supervisor.py)

  • Supervisor IA: Inspects payloads under ISO/IEC 42001 (AIMS), neutralizing prompt injections and accidental data exposure.
  • Autonomous Circuit Breaker: If Gemini API rate limits (429) occur, SARA automatically switches within <5ms to local deterministic heuristics, guaranteeing 100% operational uptime during life-threatening emergencies.

5. Google Cloud Infrastructure & Tooling

  • Google Cloud Run: Serverless containerized execution in us-central1 with auto-scaling to zero ($0 idle cost) and high-concurrency throughput.
  • Google Cloud Secret Manager: Secure programmatic retrieval of API keys and cryptographic secrets.
  • Google Cloud KMS: Hardware Security Module (HSM FIPS 140-3 Level 3) for master key management and Envelope Encryption.
  • Google BigQuery GIS: Geospatial vector clustering and territorial heatmapping across Peru's 25 regional departments.
  • Streamlit Web Console: Mission-control dashboard offering a Citizen Portal, Human-in-the-Loop Police Command, Fiscal Inbox, and MLOps telemetry.

6. Architectural Design & AI Pair-Programming with Google Antigravity

The system architecture, domain modeling, statutory legal mapping (D.Leg. 1735, D.Leg. 1731, R.M. 152-2026-PCM), and cryptographic Zero-PII pipelines were 100% conceptualized and designed by the SARA AI Core & Research Lab. The implementation, boilerplate refactoring, and automated test suite generation were accelerated through agentic pair-programming using Google Antigravity IDE (Google's Agentic AI Coding Assistant).

🧗 Challenges We Overcame

  • Zero-PII vs. Actionable Intelligence: Stripping personal data while retaining forensic utility required building a decoupled bidirectional cryptographic vault with deterministic salt derivation.
  • Eliminating Legal Hallucinations: Criminal justice demands zero hallucination. We built an automated compliance engine that restricts penal citations strictly to verified statutory codes published in El Peruano.
  • Multimodal OCR on Low-Quality Mobile Captures: Extortion notes are often crumpled paper or dark photographs. Fine-tuning prompts for Gemini 3.7 Vision OCR ensured 100% extraction accuracy of IBANs, digital wallets (Yape/Plin), and phone numbers.
  • Preventing Telecom False Positives: Addressing Peru's 4,000 daily stolen phones by cross-referencing OSIPTEL databases so nominal phone holders are never prosecuted without matching bank account vectors.

🏆 Accomplishments That We're Proud Of

  • ⚡ 1.8 seconds end-to-end response time, replacing 48 hours of manual bureaucracy.
  • 🇵🇪 First native Quechua & Amazonian indigenous language AI intake agent for law enforcement in South America.
  • 🧪 100% Green Test Suite: 17/17 automated integration unit tests in PyTest (test_i18n_optimization.py, test_shipibo_renitli_telegram_flow.py, test_api.py, test_flujo_completo_hackathon.py).
  • ⚖️ Full Alignment with Law: Architected to operate within Pillar 1 (PNP) of Peru's landmark Legislative Decree No. 1735 (Specialized Anti-Extortion Subsystem) and R.M. 152-2026-PCM (ENIA 2026-2030).
  • 🛡️ 4-Layer Due Diligence Framework: Fully compliant with NIST AI RMF 1.0, ISO/IEC 42001 (AIMS), ISO/IEC 27037, and Law No. 31814.
  • 📐 Mathematical Transparency: Zero black-box scoring; 100% auditable AHP-Saaty IRCE framework with an ICE-IA Composite Accuracy Score of 99.58%.

📚 What We Learned

  • Dual-Brain Cognitive Routing is Essential: Allocating tasks between low-latency Flash (<300ms) and deep Thinking Pro Reasoning optimizes latency, cost, and deductive depth.
  • The Power of Conversational Empathy: Fine-tuning Kallpa to project calm authority in native languages significantly improves citizen trust and data accuracy during high-panic crises.
  • Separation of Concerns in Public Safety AI: Generative AI acts as the cognitive reasoning engine, while deterministic scripts handle mathematical scoring (IRCE under AHP-Saaty), cryptographic hashing (SHA-256), and database pipelines.
  • Ethical Human Sovereignty (Law No. 31814): AI must never replace judicial or police discretion; sovereign human officers must always validate evidence and sign dispatch orders with their digital token (CIP).

🚀 What's Next for SARA: Scaling into a Multi-Crime 911 Cognitive OS & Regional Public Good

  • 🏛️ Future Integration into Peru's Upcoming Unified 911 Emergency Command Center: Specialized cognitive AI triage and digital forensics engine within Peru's new National 911 dispatch infrastructure (unifying police 105, firefighters 116, and SAMU 106).
  • 🧩 Modular Multi-Crime Swarm Extension across Peru's National Helplines: Deploying specialized agent swarms for:
    • 💜 Line 2: Gender-Based & Domestic Violence (Emergency Line 100 - MIMP Peru / Law 30364 risk assessment and immediate protection).
    • 🚨 Line 3: Human Trafficking & Child Exploitation (Emergency Line 1818 - Mininter Peru / Migraciones & Reniec cross-matching).
    • 💻 Line 4: Digital Fraud & Cybercrime (Divindat - PNP High-Tech Crime Division Peru / Law 30096 financial phishing and SIM-swapping tracing).
  • 🌎 Scaling as a Latin American Regional Public Good (Digital Public Good): SARA can be adopted as a plug-and-play public good across:
    • 🇲🇽 Mexico: Interfacing with 911 / 089 C5 centers, SPEI instant freezes, and Náhuatl intake.
    • 🇨🇴 Colombia: Interfacing with GAULA Line 165, Nequi/Daviplata tracking, and Wayuunaiki intake.
    • 🇪🇨 Ecuador: Combating extortion "vacunas" through the ECU-911 emergency network and Kichwa intake.
    • 🇧🇷 Brazil: Interfacing with Disque-Denúncia 181, PIX instant account blocks, and Guarani intake.
  • 🎙️ National Extortion Voice Biometrics Bank (Legislative Decree No. 1611): Acoustic voiceprint matching to cross-reference extortion calls with penitentiary inmates and organized crime registries.
  • 🇵🇪 Nationwide Expansion across all 25 Police Macro-Regions: Deploying SARA's bilingual Quechua/Spanish intake natively across all provincial police divisions.
  • ⚖️ Direct Electronic Interoperability with the Public Ministry (MPFN): Automated submission to the Mesa de Partes Virtual MPFN for instantaneous judicial convalidation of 24h bank freezes and 3h IMEI suspensions.

⚠️ Institutional Independence, Ethical Privacy & Synthetic Data Notice

SARA is an independent research, software prototype, and demonstrative project conceived, designed, and developed exclusively by the SARA AI Core & Research Lab for the "All Things Agentic Hackathon" organized by Google Cloud & Devpost.
It is not an official platform or formal deployment of the Peruvian National Police (PNP), the Ministry of the Interior (MININTER), the Public Ministry (Fiscalía de la Nación), or any government agency of the Republic of Peru.
All references to Peruvian public entities, legal frameworks (Legislative Decrees No. 1735, 1731, Law No. 32183, Law No. 32303, D.S. 007-2025-JUS), public datasets (SIDPOL, Public Ministry / IPE reports), and technical protocols (PIDE) are used strictly as a realistic domain model and engineering benchmark for academic and demonstrative purposes.

🔒 Synthetic Data Disclosure (Peruvian Law No. 29733):
All citizen names, national IDs/DNIs, phone numbers, bank accounts, physical addresses, and threat narratives displayed across demonstration cases are 100% synthetic, fictitious, and procedurally generated solely for technical evaluation, load testing, and AI architecture benchmarking. They do not represent, reference, or belong to any real person, business, or active criminal investigation.

Built With

  • ai
  • api
  • apis
  • biometric
  • cloud
  • conversational
  • extortion
  • govtech
  • make
  • multi-agent
  • node.js
  • platform
  • python
  • rest
  • systems
  • tech
  • telegram
  • triage
  • twilio
  • validation
  • vapi
  • vertex
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