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Watching the now-retired West Midlands Chief Constable Craig Guildford and his sidekicks giving evidence before the home affairs select committee was like watching a particularly cringeworthy episode of The Thick of It.
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Police top brass were questioned about the supposed intelligence that fans of Israeli club Macabbi Tel Aviv posed a danger to the public, which was based on reports of crowd trouble when Macabbi played at West Ham. There was just one fly in the ointment, West Ham had never played against Macabbi, ever. Under further questioning about where this information came from, Mr Guilford and his colleagues 'ummed and ahhed', before admitting their 'intelligence' basically amounted to a Google search.
The one thing Mr Guildford was clear about, though, was that the force had not used artificial intelligence to summarise its dubious........