{"id":237486,"date":"2026-01-14T12:39:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T12:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/237486\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T12:39:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T12:39:09","slug":"police-chief-admits-misleading-mps-after-ai-used-in-justification-for-banning-maccabi-tel-aviv-fans-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/237486\/","title":{"rendered":"Police chief admits misleading MPs after AI used in justification for banning Maccabi Tel Aviv fans"},"content":{"rendered":"

Guildford blamed ‘social media scraping’ and Google for reference to non-existent gamepublished at 09:43 GMT<\/p>\n

09:43 GMT<\/p>\n

\"CraigImage source, House of Commons\/PA Wire<\/p>\n

Craig Guildford was first asked by MPs about the West Ham game – which never existed – on 1 December., external<\/a><\/p>\n

He told them: “Within my narrative, which I have compiled over the weekend, the
\none assertion in relation to West Ham is completely wrong. <\/p>\n

“I am told that
\nis a result of some social media scraping that was done, and that is wrong.
\nThat was one element in a document that was eight or nine pages long,
\nbut we stand by the key tenets in the document.”<\/p>\n

He was then asked by Paul Kohler MP: “Hold on\u2014so you did an AI search, got something about West
\nHam and just whacked it into the…”<\/p>\n

Guildford replied: “No, not at all. We do a very comprehensive
\nassessment.”<\/p>\n

On 6 January<\/a>, Guildford again denied that AI had been used.<\/p>\n

“There was a definite note that
\nwe have got to the bottom of in terms of the West Ham game. <\/p>\n

“The
\nsummation in the House\u2014it was a question that was asked in the
\nHouse\u2014was that West Midlands Police may have used AI on this
\nparticular occasion. We do not use AI.<\/p>\n

“On the West Ham side of things and how we gained that information, in
\nproducing the report, one of the officers would usually go to… a system, which football officers use all over
\nthe country, that has intelligence reports of previous games. <\/p>\n

“They did not
\nfind any relevant information within the searches that they made for that.
\nThey basically Googled when the last time was. That is how the
\ninformation came to be.”<\/p>\n

Chair Karen Bradley asked: “Was it the AI function on Google?”<\/p>\n

Guildford replied: “I am being really candid here. I am told
\nthat they just did a Google search on that because they could not find it
\nin the normal system.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Guildford blamed ‘social media scraping’ and Google for reference to non-existent gamepublished at 09:43 GMT 09:43 GMT Image…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":237334,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-237486","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237486\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}