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    "id": "56a74040-e390-42e4-9461-7ca5ea90c956",
    "code": "PAI-56A74040",
    "force": "Victoria Police",
    "country": "Australia",
    "country_code": "au",
    "is_country": true,
    "region": "Victoria",
    "technology": "Retrospective Facial Recognition",
    "technology_slug": "retrospective-facial-recognition",
    "vendor": "iFace",
    "vendor_slug": "",
    "programme": "",
    "status": "operational",
    "stage": "in-use",
    "evidence": "official",
    "evidence_is_claim": false,
    "since": "2020",
    "legal_basis": "Not detailed in the source reviewed",
    "oversight": "Victorian Law Reform Commission has examined the deployment",
    "notes": "Victoria Police uses iFace to search persons of interest against an offender image database. A Victorian Law Reform Commission report recorded 86 Victorian police stations with iFace capture points as of 2020, which is the most recent figure found; this entry should be treated as confirming the system exists and was operational as of that report, not as confirmation of its current 2026 scale.",
    "source": "Victorian Law Reform Commission",
    "source_url": "https://www.lawreform.vic.gov.au/",
    "last_checked": "2026-08-27",
    "record_url": "https://www.policeainews.com/tracker/record/56a74040-e390-42e4-9461-7ca5ea90c956"
  },
  "licence": "https://www.policeainews.com/data#licence"
}