{"id":656491,"date":"2026-06-24T22:57:17","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T22:57:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/656491\/"},"modified":"2026-06-24T22:57:17","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T22:57:17","slug":"met-gets-extension-to-palantir-ai-project-after-sadiq-khan-blocked-deal-metropolitan-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/656491\/","title":{"rendered":"Met gets extension to Palantir AI project after Sadiq Khan blocked deal | Metropolitan police"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Metropolitan police<\/a> have been granted a 12-month extension to a pilot project with the spy-tech firm Palantir while the force carries out a procurement process.<\/p>\n

The development comes weeks after the mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, blocked a \u00a350m deal<\/a> between the Met and the US company to automate intelligence analysis in criminal investigations.<\/p>\n

Last month the mayor\u2019s office said there had been a \u201cclear and serious breach\u201d of procurement rules and said police had seriously considered only one supplier.<\/p>\n

Palantir\u2019s lawyers subsequently wrote to the Mayor\u2019s Office for Policing and Crime (Mopac) saying they intended to challenge the decision in court<\/a>, the Times reported.<\/p>\n

The Met will now run a procurement process for the further 12 months to appoint a supplier.<\/p>\n

Regarding the force\u2019s use of the AI system Customer Service Engine, the Met assistant commissioner Rachel Williams said on Wednesday: \u201cWe are pleased Mopac has approved the Met to continue to use this capability for a further 12 months to strengthen professional standards, root out misconduct and increase public confidence.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs part of our a New Met for London<\/a> plan, we set out a series of commitments to improve standards and tackle poor culture.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe vast majority of Met officers and staff serve London with dedication and integrity, and they \u2013 and the wider public \u2013 rightly expect robust action against the small minority who abuse their position or undermine public trust.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis work has allowed the Met for the first time to bring together data it already lawfully holds in one place to identify potential standards, welfare or cultural concerns.\u201d<\/p>\n

Williams added: \u201cA pilot project earlier this year focused on identifying potential conduct issues and a significant number of matters are now being progressed by our professional standards team.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe will continue to work with Mopac over procurement of technology at pace for the longer term. This is to support both our work on raising standards and our ambitions to use the technology to streamline administrative processes, close budget gaps and free up officers to police the streets of London.\u201d<\/p>\n

A spokesperson for the mayor of London said: \u201cThe deputy mayor has required the Met to run a new procurement process, open to a wide range of potential suppliers, to choose the long-term provider of this capability.<\/p>\n

\u201cRecognising the Met\u2019s current needs, the Met may extend the current pilot to retain existing capability while this procurement takes place.\u201d<\/p>\n

Scotland Yard appointed Palantir initially on a deal to use artificial intelligence to detect rogue officers<\/a> by scanning to see how they might be abusing rosters and other systems.<\/p>\n

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In a speech on Wednesday about the Met\u2019s use of technology, its commissioner, Mark Rowley, spoke about the collaboration with Palantir<\/a>.<\/p>\n

He said: \u201cToday, our ability to act is constrained by a lack of tech to provide such insight.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo prove this concept, we created a pilot with Palantir, first focused on integrity problems within the Met, bringing data together, surfacing patterns that would previously have gone unnoticed, identifying potential misconduct or risk earlier, and enabling us to act more consistently.<\/p>\n

\u201cThrough that pilot, we have been able to bring together data on around 45,000 people across the organisation, moving to a discovery-based model.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are no longer reliant solely on concerns being raised by colleagues or victims coming forward. We can now proactively identify problem individuals or patterns, spot risks earlier and intervene before harm occurs. It is already proving to be a step change.\u201d<\/p>\n

A Palantir spokesperson said: \u201cWe\u2019re proud that our software has been used so effectively by the Met police to identify officer misconduct. This decision will enable that important work to continue.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe know that Londoners value a police force that ensures its officers adhere to the highest standards \u2013 and we are determined to help the Met deliver that.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Metropolitan police have been granted a 12-month extension to a pilot project with the spy-tech firm Palantir…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":656492,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[554,733,4308,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-656491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=656491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656491\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/656492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=656491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=656491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=656491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}