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 The Metropolitan police has held talks with Palantir that could lead to the London force buying the US spy-tech company’s AI technology to automate intelligence analysis for criminal investigations, the Guardian has learned. Palantir, whose software is used by Donald Trump’s ICE immigration enforcement programme and the Israeli military, demonstrated its systems to senior officers in the intelligence division at the UK’s largest police force last month. Intelligence staff have been tasked with finding intelligence systems that AI could automate to increase productivity. The talks have created internal concerns about allowing a controversial US company to process highly sensitive intelligence data relating to crimes, such as victims’ personal information. Palantir already supplies experimental AI to Scotland Yard aimed at detecting rogue officers, and there are internal expectations that the company is likely to be asked to significantly expand its role in what could be a multimillion pound contract. The talks come amid rising public and political scrutiny of the ra