Month: May 2026
FoIA & AI: Formulating Better Requests, Not More Noise
Artificial intelligence is often discussed as though it is only a problem for Freedom of Information. That concern is understandable. AI can be used badly. It can produce long, unfocused, repetitive or speculative requests. It can encourage requesters to ask for explanations, opinions or arguments rather than recorded information. It can make a complaint look…
Home Office Records Reveal NaVCIS Was “Working Month to Month”
Is it still? The Home Office has quietly disclosed correspondence which raises uncomfortable new questions about the financial stability, funding pressures and operational incentives surrounding the National Vehicle Crime Intelligence Service (NaVCIS) — the specialist police unit repeatedly presented as a key national answer to organised vehicle theft. Behind the public language of intelligence-led disruption,…
Inside the NPCC’s FoI Referral Unit
When Requesters Become Intelligence When you submit a Freedom of Information Act (FoIA) request to the police, do they simply consider the question … or do they quietly begin considering you? A Freedom of Information request is supposed to be about the information asked for. But NPCC documents suggest that, behind the scenes, something else…