The application was developed by the special order of the New York City Police Department. Police often interact with Spanish-speaking citizens, and that is why knowing even a small collection of phrases greatly helps in their work.

The Police UT is an English to Spanish phrase bank with speech recognition capability. You say a phrase in English, and the machine recognizes it and pronounces the Spanish translation.

The phrase bank consists of phrases called for by policemen themselves, and contains more than 2300 phrases.

These are broken down into the following groups:
1. General
2. General Questions
3. In the car
4. Arresting people
5. Police Department
6. Witness or Victim
7. Crime scene
8. Jail