{
  "record": {
    "id": "6ae43f87-be9b-4ed0-bb59-90bd41de5876",
    "code": "PAI-6AE43F87",
    "force": "Rio de Janeiro Military Police (CICC)",
    "country": "Brazil",
    "country_code": "br",
    "is_country": true,
    "region": "Rio de Janeiro state",
    "technology": "Live Facial Recognition",
    "technology_slug": "live-facial-recognition",
    "vendor": "Dahua (car-mounted cameras)",
    "vendor_slug": "dahua",
    "programme": "",
    "status": "operational",
    "stage": "in-use",
    "evidence": "journalism",
    "evidence_is_claim": false,
    "since": "2019",
    "legal_basis": "Not established in sources reviewed",
    "oversight": "None identified",
    "notes": "State military police (distinct operator from São Paulo's city-run Smart Sampa) running facial recognition cameras via the Integrated Command and Control Center, scanning passers-by against outstanding arrest warrants and dispatching the nearest patrol on a match. Expanded before Aug 2026 with 1,300 police-car-mounted cameras using Dahua software scanning faces and plates; a police major stated plans to extend to body-worn cameras later in 2026 -- the clearest documented case of vehicle-mounted mobile facial recognition at fleet scale found in this research. Documented misidentifications in Brazil since 2020 include a Black woman arrested in Rio (2019, mistaken identity), a woman detained in Rio (Jan 2024) after the database showed her as a fugitive while she was already serving her sentence, and a Black man wrongfully detained 26 days in Bahia over a decade-old robbery by someone else. Oxford Institute of Technology and Justice records 506 AI-driven FR systems adopted in Brazil as of March 2026, with projected reach to ~87 million people.",
    "source": "Christian Science Monitor; Oxford Institute of Technology and Justice",
    "source_url": "https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Americas/2026/0813/brazil-facial-recognition-artificial-intelligence",
    "last_checked": "2026-08-26",
    "record_url": "https://www.policeainews.com/tracker/record/6ae43f87-be9b-4ed0-bb59-90bd41de5876"
  },
  "licence": "https://www.policeainews.com/data#licence"
}