By Robert Booth
Publication Date: 2026-02-22 12:34:00
The Guardian has learned that Scotland Yard is using AI tools from US technology company Palantir to monitor the behavior of its employees in order to track down delinquent officers.
The Metropolitan Police have previously refused to confirm or deny whether they used technology from the company, which also works for the Israeli military and Donald Trump’s ICE operation. The company has now confirmed that it is using Palantir’s AI to analyze internal data on sick leave, absences from duty and overtime patterns to identify potential deficiencies in professional standards.
The police association, which represents ordinary officers, criticized the approach as “automated suspicion”. It said: “Officers must not be exposed to opaque or untested tools that risk misinterpreting unsustainable workloads, illness or overtime as indicators of misconduct.”
With 46,000 officers and staff, the Met is the largest police force in the UK and has had to face a wave of…
