"Scotland Yard is using AI tools supplied by the US tech company Palantir to monitor staff behaviour in an attempt to root out failing officers, the Guardian has learned. The Metropolitan police has previously declined to confirm or deny whether it used technology supplied by the company, which also works for the Israeli military and Donald Trump's ICE operation."
"It has now confirmed that it is using Palantir's AI to analyse internal data about sickness levels, absences from duty and overtime patterns in an effort to identify potential shortcomings in professional standards. The Police Federation, which represents rank-and-file officers, criticised the approach as automated suspicion. It said: Officers must not be subjected to opaque or untested tools that risk misinterpreting unsustainable workload pressures, sickness or overtime as indicators of wrongdoing."
"With 46,000 officers and staff, the Met is the UK's largest police force and has faced a wave of controversies, ranging from failures to properly vet officers highlighted by Wayne Couzens' murder of Sarah Everard to the toleration of discriminatory and misogynistic behaviour. The force said: There is evidence to suggest a correlation between significant levels of sickness, increased absences or unusually high overtime, and failings in standards, culture and behaviour."
Scotland Yard is deploying Palantir's AI to combine internal databases and analyze sickness levels, absences from duty and overtime patterns to identify patterns linked to professional standards concerns. The pilot aims to detect correlations between significant sickness or unusually high overtime and potential failings in standards, culture and behaviour. The system surfaces patterns for human officers to investigate and determine any performance or standards issues. The Police Federation warned that algorithmic profiling risks misinterpreting unsustainable workloads, sickness or overtime as indicators of wrongdoing. The technology provider also has contracts with international military and immigration agencies.
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