FOI Facial Recognition (0249-2022/23)

Request

1. Has your police force utilised facial recognition technology on a non-trial basis? If so, what was the first date of implementation?
2. Please list every time facial recognition technology has been used by date (and if possible, the reason for its deployment)
3. Please list how many people have been identified as “True positives” and please subdivide into ethnicity.
4. Please list how many people have been identified as “False positives” and please subdivide into ethnicity.
5. Please provide a percentage breakdown of the ethnicities that were identified as false positives as a total figure

I would like the above information to be provided to me as electronic copies

Response

Extent and Result of Searches to Locate Information

To locate the information relevant to your request searches were conducted within North Yorkshire Police. I can confirm that no information is currently held by North Yorkshire Police in relation to the use of, or intended use of facial recognition technology.