The National Police Chiefs’ Council Responsible AI Checklist for Policing 2025 is a practical framework designed to help police forces in England and Wales judge whether they should responsibly adopt or develop an AI tool. It is built around prompts covering technical validity, operational deployment and legal and ethical proportionality, encouraging forces to think not just about whether a technology can be used, but whether it should be used in a given policing context. The checklist is intended to be completed with detailed explanations and justifications for decisions, and to inform governance, accountability and staff training processes as forces evaluate AI-enabled systems.

Its purpose is to make sure that any use of AI in policing contributes positively to core objectives like crime prevention and detection while guarding against risks such as bias, privacy harm or misuse. It sits alongside other national guidance and tools, such as the NPCC’s AI Playbook and professional practice on data ethics, and is meant for use by project leads, ethics bodies and decision-makers overseeing the adoption of emerging data analytics and AI technologies.

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