London Mayor Sadiq Khan blocks £50m Met police contract with Palantir over procurement breach
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Summary
London Mayor Sadiq Khan has blocked a £50m contract between the Metropolitan Police and Palantir, the US tech company, citing a "clear and serious breach" of procurement rules. The deal would have allowed Scotland Yard to use Palantir's AI technology to automate intelligence analysis in criminal investigations. The Mayor's Office for Policing and Crime (Mopac) withheld approval, preventing what would have been Palantir's largest policing contract in Britain.
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But Khan intervened on Thursday to stop the flagship contract, which would have been Palantir's largest yet in British policing.
The Mayor's Office for Policing and Crime (Mopac), which must approve contracts of this size, withheld approval.
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