
Aimee Smith
Aimee Smith is the UK Government's Chief Data Officer at the Government Digital Service, having joined from a 25-year career at the Metropolitan Police, where she was Director of Data.
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Sep 29, 2026
S7 | Ep 26 | 300 days as the UK Governments CDO with Aimee Smith, UK Government Chief Data Officer, UK Civil Service
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8:36How do you manage that then? How do you manage kind of trying to influence what are effectively a whole microism of their own businesses effectively, their own entities, where you don't have the kind of decision making authority to kind of tell these people exactly what they have to do?

Aimee SmithGUEST
And I'll be honest, I think I spent the first three months just trying to work out how to speak civil servant, right? How the hell does things work on this? It's a completely different language.

Aimee SmithGUEST
I don't mean that in a pejorative, it's all bad way, but just, I speak cop, right? I don't speak civil servant.

Aimee SmithGUEST
So at the very highest level, power works by a political mandate that the people give to politicians, but it also works by how you allocate budgets.
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How the Met Police Uses AI to Prevent Crime and Protect Communities
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Cindi HowsonHOST
Take us through some of the steps or milestones in your career that brought you to this point.

Aimee SmithGUEST
And I don't think that's a career progression that a lot of chief data officers would have.

Aimee SmithGUEST
So the first thing to say is working in policing is such an exciting environment.
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Cindi HowsonHOST
Any other example or case study you want to share of data and AI making the world a better place?