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UK Police investigating grooming gangs given AI tools to speed up cold case work

All police forces investigating #grooming #gangs in England and Wales will be given access to new AI tools. Those tools have already saved officers around £20m and 16k hours of investigation time.

The apps can translate large amounts of text in foreign languages from mobile phones seized by police, and analyse a mass of data to find patterns and relationships between suspects in more than 1,200 closed gang cases of child sexual exploitation

Police has also been instructed to collect ethnicity data. A June report found the lack of ethnicity and nationality data in grooming gangs was "a major failing over the last decade or more". Officials avoided this data for fear of being called racist, but there were enough convictions of #pakistani men "to have warranted closer examination".