Dear Gloucestershire Constabulary,

I write to request information and records under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA), regarding the use of facial recognition technology.

Questions 1-6 relate to the period January 2022-January 2023.

1. Has Gloucestershire Constabulary deployed live facial recognition?
a. If so, please provide dates and locations for each deployment.

2. Has Gloucestershire Constabulary used any form of retrospective facial recognition?
a. If so, please provide the dates and locations at which the images or footage was obtained.

3. Has Gloucestershire Constabulary deployed operator initiated facial recognition?
a. If so, please provide dates and locations for each deployment.

4. Has Gloucestershire Constabulary deployed any type of facial recognition in conjunction with body-worn video?
a. If so, please provide dates and locations for each deployment.

5. Where live facial recognition has been used:
a. How many images were on the watch list used in each instance?
b. From where were these images taken?
c. How many of those on the watch list were not wanted for arrest in each instance?
i. For what other reasons were these people included?

6. At each deployment, how many alerts were generated?
a. How many times did police officers consider the match sufficiently credible to stop individuals and perform an identity check?
b. Following an identity check, how many stops were verified as correct matches?

Questions 7-10 relate to the period from February 2023 onwards.

7. Does Gloucestershire Constabulary plan to deploy live facial recognition?
a. If so, please provide dates and locations for each known planned deployment.

8. Does Gloucestershire Constabulary plan to use retrospective facial recognition?
a. If so, please provide dates and locations for each known planned deployment.

9. Does Gloucestershire Constabulary plan to deploy operator initiated facial recognition?
a. If so, please provide dates and locations for each known planned deployment.

10. Does Gloucestershire Constabulary plan to deploy any type of facial recognition in conjunction with body-worn video?
a. If so, please provide dates and locations for each known planned deployment.

If to provide this information would trigger the cost exemption, please let us know as soon as possible, and we will refine our request. If this request is unclear, we would be grateful if you could contact us as we understand that under FOIA, you are required to advise and assist requesters. If any of this information is already in the public domain, please can you direct us to it, with page references and URLs if necessary.

We understand that you may redact exempted information in documents, but we ask that you show where redactions have been made and give the justification. We also kindly remind you that the time taken for redactions does not usually contribute towards the cost cap under FOIA.

We look forward to your response within 20 working days, i.e. by 13th March 2023.

Yours faithfully,

Miriam Jones