2022/25687 - Palantir Technologies

REQUEST

 I'm writing to you under the Freedom of Information Act (2000) to ask that you please disclose to me if your constabulary has, at any point in the last 5 years, purchased or trialled software by Palantir Technologies, either direct from the government or crown commercial services, or via a third party entity (for instance, Capgemini).

I'll note that Palantir policing software is currently listed as able to purchase on the government webpage:

https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.digitalmarketplace.service.gov.uk%2Fg-cloud%2Fservices%2F122713726715040&data=05%7C01%7CFOI%40gwent.police.uk%7C833b7fa719204ef22fac08dad220c42a%7Ce46c8472ef5d4b63bc744a60db42c371%7C0%7C1%7C638053335419158339%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=GY2JcN0LL22CftAk9kKksdBSQuSnqm8QOasiDf1xEKg%3D&reserved=0

and that previously the Police trialled them as far back as 2010 as part of a consortium agreement between Cheshire, Norfolk, Suffolk, the Met, and Northamptonshire as part of the Multi-Force Shared Services - which ran on a programme joint built by Oracle and Palantir on a software that was called (outside of the MFSS) T-Police - this software was purchased through Capgemini, and again the Met in 2012 used them during the London Olympics. The Met also trialled them between 2014-15 as one of three vendors providing "predictive policing" solutions, and as late as 2020 the force listed Palantir on it's ICT digital spend for "policing the capital".

So if their software in any capacity has been used by police from 2017 to present this is the information I would like please.

RESPONSE