UK police are working on plans for a national service that would allow local intelligence and crime data to be shared more widely across forces. The project, linked to the National Police Chiefs Council, is aimed at connecting information across the broader law enforcement and justice system rather than keeping it inside separate local databases.
According to the report, the approach would use Palantir’s AI tools to help investigators search, organise and analyse large volumes of information. The goal is to make intelligence sharing faster and broader, giving officers and analysts a way to work across force boundaries with a more unified view of relevant data.
A key part of the proposal is the ability to examine mobile phone data and other sensitive information at scale. That suggests a major expansion in how digital evidence and intelligence material could be processed, potentially helping investigations that rely on finding links across many records, devices and cases.
The plans point to a wider shift in UK policing toward centralized data systems and advanced analytics. While the reported focus is on improving operational access to intelligence and crime data, the scale of the system and the use of AI-powered tools are likely to draw attention to how police data is handled, shared and governed across the UK.
