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Technologies
- Technology Live Facial Recognition Real-time scanning of every passing face against a police watchlist, operating at scale in the UK on force policy rather than statute, upheld by the High Court in April 2026 and now expanding to 50 vans.
- Technology Operator-Initiated Facial Recognition (handheld) Operator-initiated facial recognition: an officer photographs a person in front of them on a handheld device and checks the image against a police database, the fastest-spreading UK facial recognition mode and the least debated.
- Technology Individual Risk Scoring and Targeting Systems that score named individuals by predicted risk of offending or victimisation, directing police attention to people rather than places — the most consequential and least evaluated category in this catalogue.
- Technology Mobile Device Extraction Tools that download the full contents of a seized phone — including deleted data and, increasingly, linked cloud accounts — used by most UK forces on devices belonging to suspects, witnesses and victims alike.
- Technology NEC NeoFace NEC's facial recognition algorithm, used by South Wales Police and the Metropolitan Police across live, retrospective and handheld deployments, and the most independently evaluated system in this catalogue.
Deployments
- Deployment Metropolitan Police (and other forces) — Operator-Initiated Facial Recognition (handheld) Home Office-supported deployment
- Deployment Metropolitan Police — Live Facial Recognition NEC (NeoFace)
- Deployment Metropolitan Police and 25+ other UK forces — Mobile device extraction (Cellebrite) Cellebrite
- Deployment Ministry of Justice, Home Office, Greater Manchester Police, Metropolitan Police — Individual Risk Scoring Developed in-house (Ministry of Justice data science team)
- Deployment British Transport Police — Live Facial Recognition NEC (NeoFace M40)
- Deployment Gwent Police — Facial recognition technology (variant not specified in source) Not specified in source
- Deployment Essex Police — Facial recognition technology (variant not specified in source) Not specified in source
- Deployment Leicestershire Police — Facial recognition technology (variant not specified in source) Not specified in source
Coverage
- Story The Weekly Round-up: Circumventing For Women Scotland? And unlawful imprisonment in the High Court The Metropolitan Police plan to deploy live facial recognition technology on London's Oxford Street. The Guardian reported the plans on Wednesday. Oxford Street is the busiest shop
- Story Live facial recognition cameras to be used on UK’s busiest shopping street The Metropolitan Police are understood to be planning to use live facial recognition technology on London’s Oxford Street. Sadiq Khan has indicated the deployment will go ahead on
- Story Faces of Oxford Street shoppers to be scanned in hunt for wanted crime suspects Permanent live facial recognition cameras will be used on Oxford Street to scan shoppers and tourists for wanted suspects. Sir Sadiq Khan indicated the newly pedestrianised area wi
- Story AI-run traffic cameras now at 19 Dhaka intersections, 1,500 cases filed so far: DMP chief Dhaka Metropolitan Police Commissioner Mosleh Uddin Ahmed has announced the expansion of artificial intelligence-powered traffic surveillance cameras to 19 major intersections acro
- Story 1,500 traffic violation cases recorded through AI traffic surveillance system: DMP chief Dhaka Metropolitan Police Commissioner Mosleh Uddin Ahmed has inaugurated an AI camera-based traffic monitoring and e-prosecution system on Lake Road, adjacent to Jatiya Sangsad Bh
- Story Metropolitan Police chief warns against law updates amid substantial tech expansion Metropolitan Police Commissioner Mark Rowley has set out plans to significantly expand the London force's use of artificial intelligence, live facial recognition, and drones. Speak
- Story Met Police boss slammed over 'big brother' policing as force to expand drone and AI use The Metropolitan Police is expanding its technology use across London by deploying drones to respond to certain 999 emergency calls. Force Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley plans to dev
- Story The Guardian – Fixed facial recognition cameras to be installed in West End The Metropolitan Police is deploying live facial recognition cameras in the West End and Soho prior to Christmas. Over the coming year, the force intends to roll out facial recogni