Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the effectiveness of the use of predictive analytics as a law enforcement tool.

A number of police forces are using predictive policing techniques, particularly to reduce crimes like burglary. The Home Office has undertaken no
formal assessment of these techniques, but the College of Policing has plans to release a technical assessment of different predictive crime mapping models and software. This will inform police forces’ decisions about appropriate analytical tools and techniques.