Written Question·Home Office·UIN 119366

Biometrics: Arrests

Tabled: 10 March 2026

Answered: 25 March 2026

Question

Clive Lewis

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the number of people who may have been wrongly arrested or questioned by police as a result of incorrect facial recognition matches produced by the Cognitec FaceVACS-DBSc

Answer

Sarah Jones

The Home Secretary has commissioned His Majesty’s Chief Inspector of Constabulary (HMICFRS) to conduct an inspection of police and relevant law enforcement agencies’ use of retrospective facial recognition. The detail of the inspection and publication of ...

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