Stalkers across London could be slung behind bars in less than 24 hours thanks to new technology being trialled by the Met Police.
Officers are being given access to software that could chop weeks or months off the majority of stalking and harassment cases.
The computer programme can analyse thousands of lines of mobile phone data within seconds, producing a map that pinpoints every time the stalker and their victim were in the same location at the same time.
Officers previously had to trawl through huge computer spreadsheets, manually processing the data.
Detective Sergeant Gurps Singh, one of the analysts who was tasked with that job, said he had seen “what was previously weeks of work reduced to ten seconds” during the trial.
The first stalking case to successfully use the programme – previously deployed in gang and county lines…
