Facial recognition plans

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Dear Derbyshire Constabulary,

Please provide answers to the following:
1. Does Derbyshire Constabulary have any plans to introduce facial recognition?

2. If so, please provide all information relating to those plans.

3. Does Derbyshire Constabulary have any plans to introduce retrospective facial recognition?

4. If so, please provide all information relating to those plans.

Yours faithfully,

Elena Miucci

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1. Does Derbyshire Constabulary have any plans to introduce facial
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?2. If so, please provide all information relating to those plans.

 

?3. Does Derbyshire Constabulary have any plans to introduce retrospective
facial recognition?

 

?4. If so, please provide all information relating to those plans.

 

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Dear Ms Miucci,

 

Thank you for making a Freedom of Information request to the Derbyshire
Constabulary.

Please find attached our response.

 

Yours sincerely

 

Lydia Sinclair
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Freedom of Information
Information Management
Derbyshire Constabulary 
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Ripley

Derbyshire

DE5 3RS
Tel: 0300 122 8752
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Commissioner for the Retention and Use of Biometric Material Annual Report
January 2021 – March 2022

And

Surveillance Camera Commissioner Annual Report March 2021 – March 2022

February 2023

'84. More worrying is the reported use of images of people who, while having been arrested, have never subsequently been charged or summonsed, for comparison against Live Facial Recognition ‘reads‘ and watchlists. As I record in Part 2 of this report, the use of facial recognition technology by the police has become one of the most contentious areas of biometric surveillance, not just in the UK but globally .

Part 2 – Facial Recognition and AI

96. The objective of the event was to gain a better understanding of how facial recognition technology is perceived by society in a policing and law enforcement context. Speaking at the event were the Forensic Science Regulator, a senior lecturer from Sheffield University and representatives from the Biometrics Institute, the Information Commissioner’s Office, South Wales Police, and Big Brother Watch.

Appendix F: Facial recognition and AI'

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk...

Initial analysis of the 2022 police survey returns
Published 14 November 2022

Is your force operating Facial Recognition Technology?

Only one force stated that it was using LFR (from the list supplied). Six had access to PND and two of those to CAID. One other mentioned access to Athena.

https://www.gov.uk/government/publicatio...

Live facial recognition technology guidance published
22/3/22

https://www.college.police.uk/article/li...

The Biometrics and Surveillance Camera Commissioner's response to the College of Policing APP on Live Facial Recognition - 6/4/22

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/the-b...

Chief Constables’ Council
Title: National Biometrics Function and National Facial Recognition Project - 30/9/21

https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/8...

Who's Watching You? Report by Big Brother Watch - 7/2/22

https://bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/wp-conten...

'Police forces were reluctant to answer questions about any advanced capabilities, while some refused to say if they used Chinese brands at all'

Fact Sheet on live facial recognition used by police Home Office 2019
https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov....