{"id":22089,"date":"2026-02-24T07:37:25","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T06:37:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/24\/its-not-robocop-uk-police-embrace-ai-efficiency-in-complex-investigations\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T07:37:25","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T06:37:25","slug":"its-not-robocop-uk-police-embrace-ai-efficiency-in-complex-investigations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/24\/its-not-robocop-uk-police-embrace-ai-efficiency-in-complex-investigations\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018It\u2019s not Robocop\u2019: UK police embrace AI \u2018efficiency\u2019 in complex investigations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Detectives say tools supplied by Palantir were integral to convictions of a criminal gang that stole \u00a3800,000<\/p>\n<p>It was fraud on a grand scale. The \u201cFuck the Police\u201d criminal gang based in Luton and Romania stole \u00a3800,000 in more than 3,000 withdrawals from cash machines in dozens of locations throughout 2024.<\/p>\n<p>The police investigation matched the crime in its complexity. When detectives in Bedfordshire seized the suspects\u2019 two dozen smartphones, they were faced with a mountain of potential digital evidence \u2013 1.4 terabytes of information, according to the authorities, connecting co-conspirators across eastern England and the Bacau region of Romania.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2026\/feb\/24\/its-not-robocop-uk-police-embrace-ai-efficiency-in-complex-investigations\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/9372914bd1dba03e23786825104c34d327411912\/1615_0_5511_4411\/master\/5511.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=a48b6dc53210146cb7c9b2dc69d85e67\" title=\"\u2018It\u2019s not Robocop\u2019: UK police embrace AI \u2018efficiency\u2019 in complex investigations\" \/>Detectives say tools supplied by Palantir were integral to convictions of a criminal gang that stole \u00a3800,000<br \/>\nIt was fraud on a grand scale. The \u201cFuck the Police\u201d criminal gang based in Luton and Romania stole \u00a3800,000 in more than 3,000 withdrawals from cash machines in dozens of locations throughout 2024.<br \/>\nThe police investigation matched the crime in its complexity. When detectives in Bedfordshire seized the suspects\u2019 two dozen smartphones, they were faced with a mountain of potential digital evidence \u2013 1.4 terabytes of information, according to the authorities, connecting co-conspirators across eastern England and the Bacau region of Romania. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Detectives say tools supplied by Palantir were integral to convictions of a criminal gang that stole \u00a3800,000 It was fraud on a grand scale. The \u201cFuck the Police\u201d criminal gang based in Luton and Romania stole \u00a3800,000 in more than 3,000 withdrawals from cash machines in dozens of locations throughout 2024. The police investigation matched &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/24\/its-not-robocop-uk-police-embrace-ai-efficiency-in-complex-investigations\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u2018It\u2019s not Robocop\u2019: UK police embrace AI \u2018efficiency\u2019 in complex investigations<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":22090,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22089"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22089\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}