‘It’s not Robocop’: UK police embrace AI ‘efficiency’ in complex investigations

Detectives say tools supplied by Palantir were integral to convictions of a criminal gang that stole £800,000 It was fraud on a grand scale. The “Fuck the Police” criminal gang based in Luton and Romania stole £800,000 in more than 3,000 withdrawals from cash machines in dozens of locations throughout 2024. The police investigation matched the crime in its complexity. When detectives in Bedfordshire seized the suspects’ two dozen smartphones, they were faced with a mountain of potential digit...

By Robert Booth UK technology editor