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Police: Artificial Intelligence

Commons · Question 27656 · Tabled 7 Sep 2026 · Home Office · Official record

Answered 10 Sep 2026

Question

Asked by Carla Denyer

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to her Department's new story entitled PoliceAI to speed up investigations and fight crime, published on 10 June 2026, what mechanism exists to ensure that a tool shown by post-deployme

Answer

Answered by Sarah Jones, 10 Sep 2026

To build and maintain public consent for the police use of AI, the police must test and deploy AI responsibly. That means deployments must be lawful, transparent, ethical, well governed and based on robust assessments of accuracy and bias. A core reason f...