Facial Recognition Technology

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Dear Ministry of Defence Police,

Please can you let me know if the Ministry of Defence Police has used Facial recognition technology, including facial recognition cameras, for policing, or for testing purposes, during 2019-20.

a) What dates was the technology used?
b) What was the purpose of using the technology?
c) Was the technology used in relation to policing a particular public event or protest?
d) What company supplied the technology

Yours faithfully,

Tom Anderson

MDP-FOI-DP (MULTIUSER), Ministry of Defence Police

Good Morning

Thank you for your email which has been logged as a new request under our reference 2020/08102 and the target date for response is 12/08/2020.

The Freedom of Information Act requires a response to be provided to a request under the Act within 20 working days from date of receipt and we therefore aim to respond to you by 12/08/2020. Whilst we are working hard to achieve this, due to the ongoing Coronavirus pandemic and the effect on resources and necessary changes to ways of working, we should advise that it may take longer to provide a substantive response to some requests.

Kind regards

MDP Freedom of Information Office

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MDP-FOI-DP (MULTIUSER), Ministry of Defence Police

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Good Morning,

Further to your Freedom of Information request below, please find attached our response to you.

Kind regards
MDP Freedom of Information Office

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