Detective Chief Superintendent Peter Spindler, who heads the Metropolitan Police's central child protection unit, said: "I have no doubt that we will be saving people's lives. We have already stopped ...

On Tuesday the National Police Chiefs’ Council (NPCC) said 307,452 officers, staff and volunteers had been checked against the database, with 461 of the most serious cases requiring a review by ...

A Police Constable at the Civil Nuclear Constabulary and an officer at the Ministry of Defence Police are also being investigated for criminal allegations that have come to light as a result. The ...

UK police urged to double down on ... Chris Philp said that using the AI-enabled technology would allow for over 200,000 searches of images against the Police National Database by May ...

In May 2023, an interim report into upcoming UK government data reforms revealed that policing minister Chris Philp was pushing for facial-recognition technology to be rolled out by police forces ...

The report acknowledges the recently released National Digital Policing Strategy 2020-2030 and the Biometrics and Forensics ...

The PNC is a national database of information for police officers, enforcement agencies and other UK bodies, and provides basic information about the owner of a vehicle.

The Home Office’s National Policing Capabilities Unit (NPCU), in collaboration with the Accelerated Capability Environment ...