Facial recognition technology 412/2025
FOI Reference: 412/25
Request:
Questions 1-6 relate to the period from January 2023 to present.
1 Has Dyfed-Powys Police deployed live facial recognition?
Please provide dates and locations for each deployment.
2 Has Dyfed-Powys Police used any form of retrospective facial recognition?
Please specify whether this is via the Police National Database (PND), any other database, or a combination.
If any database other than the PND was accessed for the purposes of retrospective facial recognition, please specify the database(s) and the number of searches that have been conducted.
3 Has Dyfed-Powys Police deployed operator initiated facial recognition?
Please provide dates and locations for each deployment
4 Has Dyfed-Powys Police deployed any form of facial recognition in conjunction with body-worn video?
Please provide dates and locations for each deployment.
5 Where live facial recognition has been used:
How many individuals were on the watchlist used in each instance?
How many of those on the watchlist were not wanted for arrest in each instance?
For what reasons were these people included?
6 At each deployment, how many alerts were generated?
How many of these were true alerts (confirmed and unconfirmed) and how many were false alerts (confirmed and unconfirmed)?
Please provide the engagement outcomes for each deployment, showing how many resulted in arrest, other disposal, or no action.
7 Does Dyfed-Powys Police plan to deploy live facial recognition?
If so, please specify dates and locations of any planned trials or deployments.
8 Does Dyfed-Powys Police plan to deploy operator initiated facial recognition?
If so, please specify dates and locations of any planned trials or deployments.
9 Please provide any internal policy document, guidelines or legal basis governing Dyfed-Powys Police’s use of facial recognition technology, including any Data Protection Impact Assessment.
Response 1:
I can confirm that Dyfed-Powys Police does hold the information requested, as outlined below.
No
Response 2:
I can confirm that Dyfed-Powys Police does hold the information requested, as outlined below.
Yes - PND
Response 3:
I can confirm that Dyfed-Powys Police does hold the information requested, as outlined below.
No
Response 4:
I can confirm that Dyfed-Powys Police does hold the information requested, as outlined below.
No
Response 5:
I can confirm that Dyfed-Powys Police does hold the information requested, as outlined below.
N/A based on the response provided for question 1.
Response 6:
I can confirm that Dyfed-Powys Police does hold the information requested, as outlined below.
N/A based on the response provided for question 4.
Response 7:
I can confirm that Dyfed-Powys Police does hold the information requested, as outlined below.
No
Response 8:
I can confirm that Dyfed-Powys Police does hold the information requested, as outlined below.
No
Response 9:
I can confirm that there is no information held by Dyfed-Powys Police due to the fact that we do not hold an internal policy document, guidelines or legal basis governing Dyfed-Powys Police’s use of facial recognition technology, including any Data Protection Impact Assessment.
Please note: As PND is a national system there could be a national DPIA which will be held by the NPCC. Please contact them at the following: @ https://www.npcc.police.uk/About-Us/governance-and-accountability/foi-and-subject-access-request/ or advise me if you would like me to transfer the request to the NPCC.
It should be noted that as a result of the systems adopted by Dyfed-Powys Police in relation to the recording of such information that the information released may or may not be accurate.
(This is a response under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 and disclosed on 16/04/2025)
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