Written Question·Home Office·UIN 904435

Police: Biometrics

Tabled: 22 May 2025
Answered: 2 June 2025
Named Day

Question

Shockat Adam

IndependentLeicester South

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that the use of facial recognition and AI technologies by the police is transparent.

Answer

Dame Diana Johnson
Facial recognition is an important tool that assists the police in protecting the public, and identifying the perpetrators of crime, and we want to ensure that we maximise the potential of that technology to support our Safer Streets mission.At the same t...

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