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FOI 0031-2025/26- Facial recognition

Request:

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 from January 2023 to present.

Q1. Has North Yorkshire Police deployed live facial recognition?

  • Please provide dates and locations for each deployment.

Q2. Has North Yorkshire Police used any form of retrospective facial recognition?

  • Please specify whether this is via the Police National Database (PND), any other database, or a combination.
  • If any database other than the PND was accessed for the purposes of retrospective facial recognition, please specify the database(s) and the number of searches that have been conducted.

Q3. Has North Yorkshire Police deployed operator initiated facial recognition?

  • Please provide dates and locations for each deployment.

Q4. Has North Yorkshire Police deployed any form of facial recognition in conjunction with body-worn video?

  • Please provide dates and locations for each deployment.

Q5. Where live facial recognition has been used:

  • How many individuals were on the watchlist used in each instance?
  • How many of those on the watchlist were not wanted for arrest in each instance?
  • For what reasons were these people included?

Q6. At each deployment, how many alerts were generated?

  • How many of these were true alerts (confirmed and unconfirmed) and how many were false alerts (confirmed and unconfirmed)?
  • Please provide the engagement outcomes for each deployment, showing how many resulted in arrest, other disposal, or no action.

Q7. Does North Yorkshire Police plan to deploy live facial recognition?

  • If so, please specify dates and locations of any planned trials or deployments.

Q8. Does North Yorkshire Police plan to deploy operator initiated facial recognition?

  • If so, please specify dates and locations of any planned trials or deployments.

Q9. Please provide any internal policy document, guidelines or legal basis governing North Yorkshire Police’s use of facial recognition technology, including any Data Protection Impact Assessment.

Response:

Extent and Result of Searches to Locate Information

To locate the information relevant to your request searches were conducted within North Yorkshire Police.

I can confirm that the information you have requested is held by North Yorkshire Police. 

Decision

I have today decided to disclose the following information to you.

Q1. No

Q2. Yes

Q2a. PND

Q3. No

Q4. Only Retrospective Facial Recognition using PND, which is already covered above.

Q5. N/A

Q6. N/A

Q7. NYP is not investing in further capability at this time.  They support the development of Regional Capability.

Q8. NYP is not investing in further capability at this time.  They support the development of Regional Capability.

Q9. N/A

Please note that systems used for recording information are not generic, nor are the procedures used locally in capturing the data.  It should be noted therefore that this force’s response to your questions should not be used for comparison purposes with any other responses you may receive.