Met Police boss threatens to cut 700 frontline jobs after Palantir deal blocked
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Commissioner Mark Rowley says automation savings are now 'at risk'
London's Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) is planning to cut around 700 extra frontline posts after being blocked from awarding a software contract to US supplier Palantir, Commissioner Mark Rowley said.
On May 20, the capital's deputy mayor for policing and crime Kaya Comer-Schwartz refused to approve the MPS's plan to hand its Unified Operational Analytics (UOA) contract, worth up to £50 million over two years, to Palantir.
The force already uses Palantir in professional standards investigations into its own officers.
In the written version of his report to the London Policing Boardon June 11, Rowley said the MPS has to reduce its full-time equivalent (FTE) headcount by 1,150 in the current financial year to balance its budget. The UOA would have covered around 500 of these by reducing staff time spent on backroom work including intelligence...
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