West Midlands Police (WMP) Chief Constable Craig Guildford has retired after facing intense political pressure over the decision to bar Maccabi Tel Aviv fans from attending the Europa League game against Aston Villa in November 2025. This pressure stemmed in part from revelations that inaccurate AI-generated intelligence had been included in the evidence used to justify the ban.

The case raises important considerations for policing, the wider public sector and beyond – as Deloitte Australia recently discovered when forced to refund fees after delivering a government report littered with AI-generated fabrications.

In the case of WMP, there was a lack of validation before information from AI searches entered the SAG reports, the audit trail appears to have been weak, and accountability was obscured by leadership being unaware of which tools were being used within the force.

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