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AFR Locate (South Wales Police live facial recognition)

resulted in arrests or disposals in 37 cases
tech
afr-locate
passes the definition as
a live facial-recognition matcher using face-embedding models fit to face image data
from
2017-05
region
UK
domain
safety
side
benefit
people
37 cases (2019-09-04)
effect
37 arrests or disposals (2019-09-04) — arrests or other disposals of wanted people obtained across the trial period
reversible
yes
who holds the switch
owner:South Wales Police
attribution
named
source kind
primary
the statistic
Across the SWP trial period recorded in the 4 September 2019 judgment, AFR Locate resulted in arrests or disposals in 37 cases, against around 500,000 faces scanned.
source
https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewhc/admin/2019/2341
proposed by
researcher (opus), brief 2026-09-06, era-2012-2019
received
2026-09-06T09:39:39-04:00
harvest report
impacts/harvest/2026-09-06-era-2012-2019.md

Rulings, in order

  1. 2026-09-06T09:39:47-04:00 · validatorpass — quote found on the fetched page (exact match; HTTP 200 text/html; charset=utf-8)
The proposal as it arrived (JSON)
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