{
  "record": {
    "id": "747f5a15-732f-4996-8cdd-d5e1ec4b5206",
    "code": "PAI-747F5A15",
    "force": "fedpol (Swiss Federal Office of Police)",
    "country": "Switzerland",
    "country_code": "ch",
    "is_country": true,
    "region": "Federal",
    "technology": "Facial image comparison module (Gesichtsbildabgleich) in the AFIS biometric system",
    "technology_slug": "retrospective-facial-recognition",
    "vendor": "",
    "vendor_slug": "",
    "programme": "",
    "status": "proposed",
    "stage": "horizon",
    "evidence": "official",
    "evidence_is_claim": false,
    "since": "",
    "legal_basis": "",
    "oversight": "fedpol states that matches produced automatically are verified manually by its own facial image experts, that comparison is carried out exclusively against images already stored in AFIS from police person-queries - social media images and identity document photographs are excluded - and that use is confined to individual cases after an offence, with real-time surveillance ruled out.",
    "notes": "Established by fedpol's own page on Gesichtsbildabgleich, which describes the automated fingerprint identification system AFIS being renewed and extended with a facial image comparison module, under which facial image traces from crime scenes are compared against stored facial images of known persons. The page refers to the project as AFIS2026 and gives a contract award announced on 10 March 2025. Status is recorded as proposed rather than trial or operational because the page describes a system being built and nothing read in this run establishes that the module is in use. Legal basis left empty: the fedpol page read does not state which law and article authorise the module, and Swiss commentary read in searching for it disputes whether the existing basis is adequate - that dispute is recorded in the accompanying report rather than asserted here. Vendor left empty: the contract award is mentioned but the awardee is not named on the page read. The 'since' field is left empty for the same reason - a contract award date is not a deployment date.",
    "source": "fedpol (Swiss Federal Office of Police)",
    "source_url": "https://www.fedpol.admin.ch/de/gesichtsbildabgleich",
    "last_checked": "2026-09-06",
    "record_url": "https://www.policeainews.com/tracker/record/747f5a15-732f-4996-8cdd-d5e1ec4b5206"
  },
  "licence": "https://www.policeainews.com/data#licence"
}