Police: Biometrics
(asked on 25th June 2020) - View Source
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many biometric records have been obtained by police forces using automatic facial recognition in each of the last five years.
This question was answered on 8th July 2020
No information is centrally held on the number of biometric records obtained by police forces using live facial recognition systems. Facial images of passers by which do not match facial images of suspects on a watchlist are deleted immediately.