Facial Recognition Use and Related Documentation

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Dear Northumbria Police,

Please could you confirm if the force is using live and/or retrospective facial recognition technology, or is planning to in the next 12 months?

If you are using facial recognition, which supplier(s) have you contracted with?

Please share copies of your policy, standard operating procedure and DPIA along with any other related documentation.

My full name is Fred Wright

Yours faithfully,

Fred

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Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA) Request 762/22 - Facial Recognition Technology

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Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA) Request 762/22 - Facial Recognition
Technology

 

Thank you for your email received on the 18 May 2022 in which you made a
request for access to certain information which may be held by Northumbria
Police.

 

As you may be aware the purpose of the Act is to allow a general right of
access to information held at the time of a request, by a Public Authority
(including the Police), subject to certain limitations and exemptions.

 

You asked:

 

1.     Please could you confirm if the force is using live and/or
retrospective facial recognition technology, or is planning to in the next
12 months?

 

2.     If you are using facial recognition, which supplier(s) have you
contracted with?

 

3.     Please share copies of your policy, standard operating procedure
and DPIA along with any other related documentation.

 

We have now had the opportunity to fully consider your request and I
provide a response for your attention.

 

Following receipt of your request, searches were conducted within
Northumbria Police.  I can confirm that the information you have requested
is not held by Northumbria Police.

 

We are not using, or planning to use in the next 12 months – such
technology.

 

If you decide to write an article / use the enclosed data we would ask you
to take into consideration the factors highlighted in this document so as
to not mislead members of the public or official bodies, or misrepresent
the relevance of the whole or any part of this disclosed material.

 

Due to the different methods of recording information across 43 forces, a
specific response from one constabulary should not be seen as an
indication of what information could be supplied (within cost) by
another.  Systems used for recording these figures are not generic, nor
are the procedures used locally in capturing the data.  For this reason
responses between forces may differ, and should not be used for
comparative purposes.

 

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property rights of Northumbria Police.  Your use of the information must
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(as amended) or such other applicable legislation.  In particular, you
must not re-use this information for any commercial purpose.

 

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Information Management Department

 

 

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people from harm.'

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