These are not predictive policing tools in the narrow sense, and not single-purpose analytics. They integrate multiple police data holdings into one searchable environment and run automated analysis across the combined whole.

The best-documented case is Palantir Gotham in German state policing, and it is unusually well documented because it produced a constitutional judgment. In Hesse, hessenDATA had automated access to the POLAS police information system, ComVor case management and CRIME-ST preventive data, plus telecoms traffic data, radio-cell query data, mobile phone forensic extractions and police telex traffic, with social network data available subject to a prior court order. The Federal Constitutional Court described the capability as establishing links between persons, groups, organisations and objects, filtering out insignificant information, running statistical and multi-level link analysis, generating new suspicions and information police had no prior grounds to look for, and potentially building movement, behavioural, relationship and personality profiles or machine-generated dangerousness assessments in the manner of predictive policing.

On 16 February 2023 the Court held the enabling provisions in Hessian and Hamburg police law unconstitutional in their then form, ruling that automated analysis and interpretation of stored data is itself an interference with informational self-determination requiring a proportionate legal threshold. That is a significant holding: the analysis, not merely the collection, was treated as the intrusion.

Deployment continued and expanded. Hesse has used hessenDATA since 2017. Bavaria's VeRA completed pilot operation and went live on 25 December 2024, connected to case processing systems, the state search database, the police message store and fields from operations-control and traffic-offence systems, with German media reporting roughly 100 uses by May 2025. North Rhine-Westphalia operates DAR, and Baden-Württemberg had planned adoption. The Bundesrat has called for a jointly financed federal interim platform.

Critics note that while the source code sits on German servers there is no assurance copies cannot be moved to the United States, and that Palantir was reportedly given unrestricted access to Bavarian police files for integration purposes.