Comment by Alex Murray

UK National Police Chiefs' Council (NPCC) lead for Artificial Intelligence; Director of Threat Leadership at the National Crime Agency
If you talk about live facial recognition or predictive policing, there will be bias. [...] There is no point releasing something to policing that has bias in it that's not recognised, and everything should be done to minimise it to a level where it can be understood and mitigated.
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AI Verified Checked: (1) Author attribution — Alex Murray is the UK NPCC lead for AI / NCA Director of Threat Leadership; correct. (2) Quote content — WebFetch on the source_url (computing.co.uk) returned HTTP 403, but a web search returned the exact quote verbatim ("If you talk about live facial recognition or predictive policing, there will be bias..." and "There is no point releasing something to policing that has bias in it that's not recognised, and everything should be done to minimise it to a level where it can be understood and mitigated") corroborated by multiple independent outlets (computing.co.uk, resultsense.com, thecanary.co), all from Feb 2026. (3) Year 2026 — correct. (4) Vote alignment — statement "Ban predictive policing", vote "against": Murray, as police AI lead, argues bias should be recognised and mitigated rather than banning the tools, so opposing a ban is the correct direction. All checks pass. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-8 · 3d ago
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