Device and Method for Determining a Level of Encounter Between a Public-Safety Officer and a Person of Interest

A method of determining a level of encounter between a public-safety officer and a person of interest, comprising:

• receiving, at an electronic computing device, information related to a public-safety incident associated with a person of interest;
• detecting, at the electronic computing device, an encounter between a public-safety officer and the person of interest;
• capturing, at the electronic computing device, via an audio and/or video capture device, one or more audio and/or video streams corresponding to the encounter between the public-safety officer and the person of interest;
• analyzing, at the electronic computing device, the one or more audio and/or video streams using an audio and/or video analytics engine;
• determining, at the electronic computing device, a current level of the encounter between the public-safety officer and the person of interest based on the analysis of the one or more audio and/or video streams and the information related to the public-safety incident;
• and
• providing, at the electronic computing device, an electronic output indicating the current level of the encounter between the public-safety officer and the person of interest.