{
  "record": {
    "id": "61216cbc-385a-41d6-bc6c-e2385f9e5d99",
    "code": "PAI-61216CBC",
    "force": "Northamptonshire Police",
    "country": "United Kingdom",
    "country_code": "uk",
    "is_country": true,
    "region": "Northamptonshire",
    "technology": "Live Facial Recognition",
    "technology_slug": "live-facial-recognition",
    "vendor": "",
    "vendor_slug": "",
    "programme": "",
    "status": "trial",
    "stage": "in-use",
    "evidence": "official",
    "evidence_is_claim": false,
    "since": "July 2023",
    "legal_basis": "",
    "oversight": "",
    "notes": "Established by Northamptonshire Police's own live facial recognition page and the deployment register it publishes, both read on 9 September 2026. The force's own wording is that it \"is trialling the use of Live Facial Recognition (LFR) technology for the purposes of preventing and detecting crime and protecting the public\", which is why the status is recorded as trial rather than operational. The published register lists deployments from 8 July 2023 onwards. The first six are at the British Grand Prix at Silverstone across 2023, 2024 and 2025, with watchlists ranging from 778 to 3,949 and no alerts recorded at any of them. Town centre deployments begin on 28 November 2025 at Abington Street and Fish Street in Northampton, with a watchlist of 3,317, eight alerts of which seven were true and one false, and three arrests. Further deployments follow in Kettering, Wellingborough, Corby, Northampton and Daventry, the most recent listed being 10 July 2026 at Foundry Place and Bowen Square in Daventry. The register was read twice in this run and gave the same first and last rows both times. Local reporting by the Northampton Chronicle & Echo on 10 December 2025 adds that seven arrests followed the first four town centre deployments and that the van used was loaned from Bedfordshire Police; that is secondary reporting, not a force document, and is recorded here as such. Vendor, legal basis and oversight are deliberately left empty. The force page links a legal mandate document, a data protection impact assessment, an equality and wellbeing impact assessment and a deployment policy, but states none of their contents on the page itself and names no supplier, and none of those documents was read in this run.",
    "source": "Northamptonshire Police live facial recognition page and deployment register",
    "source_url": "https://www.northants.police.uk/police-forces/northamptonshire-police/areas/northamptonshire-force-content/about-us/about-us/live-facial-recognition/",
    "last_checked": "2026-09-09",
    "record_url": "https://www.policeainews.com/tracker/record/61216cbc-385a-41d6-bc6c-e2385f9e5d99"
  },
  "licence": "https://www.policeainews.com/data#licence"
}