{"id":22827,"date":"2026-04-23T07:37:24","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T05:37:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/23\/met-police-in-talks-to-buy-palantir-ai-tech-for-use-in-criminal-investigations\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T07:37:24","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T05:37:24","slug":"met-police-in-talks-to-buy-palantir-ai-tech-for-use-in-criminal-investigations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/23\/met-police-in-talks-to-buy-palantir-ai-tech-for-use-in-criminal-investigations\/","title":{"rendered":"Met police in talks to buy Palantir AI tech for use in criminal investigations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: Internal concerns over allowing US firm linked to ICE and Israeli military to process highly sensitive data <\/p>\n<p>The Metropolitan police has held talks with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/palantir\">Palantir<\/a> that could lead to the London force buying the US spy-tech company\u2019s AI technology to automate intelligence analysis for criminal investigations, the Guardian has learned.<\/p>\n<p>Palantir, whose software is used by Donald Trump\u2019s ICE immigration enforcement programme and the Israeli military, demonstrated its systems to senior officers in the intelligence division at the UK\u2019s largest police force last month. Intelligence staff have been tasked with finding intelligence systems that AI could automate to increase productivity.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2026\/apr\/22\/met-police-talks-palantir-ai-tech-criminal-investigations-automate-intelligence\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/32a53d47c4e69c1cee3b77ce1cb76cd8bec7c202\/541_0_5408_4326\/master\/5408.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=8b216ce7b1480d11bb4a41157bb296ff\" title=\"Met police in talks to buy Palantir AI tech for use in criminal investigations\" \/>Exclusive: Internal concerns over allowing US firm linked to ICE and Israeli military to process highly sensitive data<br \/>\nThe Metropolitan police has held talks with Palantir that could lead to the London force buying the US spy-tech company\u2019s AI technology to automate intelligence analysis for criminal investigations, the Guardian has learned.<br \/>\nPalantir, whose software is used by Donald Trump\u2019s ICE immigration enforcement programme and the Israeli military, demonstrated its systems to senior officers in the intelligence division at the UK\u2019s largest police force last month. Intelligence staff have been tasked with finding intelligence systems that AI could automate to increase productivity. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: Internal concerns over allowing US firm linked to ICE and Israeli military to process highly sensitive data The Metropolitan police has held talks with Palantir that could lead to the London force buying the US spy-tech company\u2019s AI technology to automate intelligence analysis for criminal investigations, the Guardian has learned. Palantir, whose software is &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/23\/met-police-in-talks-to-buy-palantir-ai-tech-for-use-in-criminal-investigations\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Met police in talks to buy Palantir AI tech for use in criminal investigations<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":22828,"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\/22827"}],"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=22827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22827\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}