Legal basis

No dedicated statute for the tools themselves. The disclosure was published under Section 5(3) of Act No. 106/1999 Coll. on free access to information. The force states it is preparing for obligations under EU Regulation 2024/1689 (the AI Act).

Oversight

No dedicated regulator identified. The force states it plans to carry out a fundamental-rights impact assessment once AI Office and European Commission methodology is published.

The Czech Police's own public statement is unusual in explicitly distinguishing which of its forensic tools it considers AI/machine learning (this list) from which it does not: it names TrueAllele, STRmix, LRmix, StatistiX, CODIS and FamLinkX as fixed statistical or probabilistic systems it does not classify as AI. The force states the AI/ML tools listed here are used for preliminary information processing and do not independently collect, evaluate or generate evidence. This entry bundles several distinct tools under one entry because the source describes them collectively rather than confirming each one's individual deployment scale. Sourcing, verified August 2026: this comes from the Czech Police's own freedom-of-information response, published on its website under Section 5(3) of Act No. 106/1999 Coll. The wording confirms the entry's central point directly. The force states it does not currently use any AI system to independently collect, evaluate or generate evidence, and that tools applying machine learning technologies are used for partial tasks in the preliminary processing of information, naming ABBYY FineReader, BriefCam, Magnet AXIOM, Cellebrite UFED, speech-to-text from Phonexia and Newton, together with outputs from Ministry of the Interior security research projects. The same response records that the force plans to conduct a fundamental-rights impact assessment under the EU AI Act, but that it does not yet know the required content, scope or form because the relevant AI Office and European Commission methodology has not been published. For independent context rather than force self-description, the civil society organisation Iuridicum Remedium has published a mapping study of Czech police AI use ('Cesky Minority Report'), which covers automated recognition of faces, sounds and text and is a useful counterweight to a disclosure written by the force itself.

Source: Policie CR, published freedom-of-information response · last checked 2026-08-25