UK Law Enforcement Pushed Hard To Maintain Access To Deeply Flawed Facial Recognition Tech

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.techdirt.com/2025/12/24/uk-law-enforcement-pushed-hard-to-maintain-access-to-deeply-flawed-facial-recognition-tech/

"New guidance from the National Police Chiefs’ Council (NPCC) on “child death investigation” advises officers to search for “drugs that can terminate pregnancy” in cases involving stillbirths. The NPCC, which sets strategic direction for policing across the country UK, also suggests a woman’s digital devices could be seized to help investigators “establish a woman’s knowledge and intention in relation to the pregnancy”. That could include checking a woman’s internet searches, messages to friends and family, and health apps, “such as menstrual cycle and fertility trackers”, it states."

https://observer.co.uk/news/national/article/police-could-search-homes-and-seize-phones-after-sudden-pregnancy-loss

#StillBirth #StillBirthArrest #UKpolice #WomensRights #NationalPoliceChiefsCouncil #ObserverUK

Police are ‘trivialising stalking’ and letting victims down as figures show one in five women are targeted | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/stalking-report-police-watchdog-iopc-b2619959.html

#Stalking
#Police
#SuzyLamplughTrust
#NationalStalkingConsortium
#ONS
#IOPC
#StalkingProtectionOrder
#CollegeOfPolicing
#LondonsVictimsCommissioner
#NationalPoliceChiefsCouncil
#CPS
#Phillips

Top cop says abusers ‘attracted to professions like policing’
https://socialistworker.co.uk/news/new-statement-police-abusers/?mc_cid=21198b4ea4&mc_eid=c34a4162d7

#Abusers
#Police
#MET
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#Sexism
#Misogyny
#NationalPoliceChiefsCouncil
#Violence
#ViolenceAgainstWomen
#ViolenceAgainstWomenAndGirls
#SexualAbuse
#ChildSexAbuse
#WomensAid
#Refuge
#Carrick
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#AngoliniInquiry
#SarahEverard
#Oppression

Report hits out at ‘glacial’ progress plan to stamp out police racism | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/police-race-action-plan-report-b2578918.html

#Racism
#Police
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#NationalBlackPoliceAssociation
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#IndependentScrutinyAndOversightBoard
#NationalPoliceChiefsCouncil
#CollegeOfPolicing
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#Funding

‘Deeply sinister’: Police testing women who have miscarriages for abortion drugs in the UK | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/police-testing-abortion-drugs-miscarriage-b2439733.html

#Police
#Miscarriage
#Abortion
#AbortionDrugs
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#Mifepristone
#Misoprostol
#NHS
#BritishSocietyOfAbortionCareProviders
#PeriodApps
#InternetHistory
#GuiltyUntilProvenInnocent
#HomeOffice
#BMA
#RemovalOfPhonesETC
#NationalPoliceChiefsCouncil

Scandal of police failure to protect vulnerable women | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/domestic-abuse-police-protection-orders-yvette-cooper-b2428687.html

#Police
#Women
#Labour
#WomensSafety
#DomesticAbuse
#DomesticViolence
#DomesticViolenceProtectionOrder
#DVPO
#KellieSutton
#HertfordshirePolice
#Cooper
#Refuge
#CharlotteProudman
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#CentreForWomensJustice
#RaneemOudeh
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#NPCC
#HomeOffice
#WomensAid
#Hestia
#NationalDomesticAbuseHelpline

Police accused of widely misusing body-worn video in England and Wales | Police | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/sep/28/police-accused-widely-misusing-body-worn-video-england-wales

#Police
#BodyWornCameras
#WhatsApp
#NationalPoliceChiefsCouncil
#BodyWornVideo
#BlackLivesMatter
#Liberty
#MET