Credit – Getty Images In April, the Home Office announced £115m of new funding to create the “Police.AI” centre. Its aim is to introduce a “rapid and responsible” rollout of AI tools across all 43 forces in England and Wales. The National Police Chief Council (NPCC) claims it will establish UK policing as “a global leader in applied, responsible AI”.  Currently, each police force in the UK largely determines for itself how and when to procure, trial and deploy AI tools, leading to a lack of standardisation and inefficient, costlier procurement practices. This has inevitably led to concerns being raised regarding policy, ethics and accountability – and nowhere has the debate been more pointed than around the use of Live Facial Recognition (LFR). This is because LFR is already being used at scale.…