{
  "record": {
    "id": "9552539b-e762-46dc-b525-090afb78b27a",
    "code": "PAI-9552539B",
    "force": "Kantonspolizei St. Gallen",
    "country": "Switzerland",
    "country_code": "ch",
    "is_country": true,
    "region": "Canton of St. Gallen",
    "technology": "Griffeye Analyze DI Pro image search including face comparison",
    "technology_slug": "retrospective-facial-recognition",
    "vendor": "Griffeye",
    "vendor_slug": "",
    "programme": "",
    "status": "operational",
    "stage": "in-use",
    "evidence": "journalism",
    "evidence_is_claim": false,
    "since": "",
    "legal_basis": "Disputed. Monika Simmler, professor of criminal law at the University of St. Gallen, told SRF that the criminal procedure code lists permitted measures and that use is unlawful without a change in law; the force's head of criminal investigation, Stefan Kühne, said the existing basis is sufficient.",
    "oversight": "",
    "notes": "SRF (26 January 2022) reported that the Kantonspolizei St. Gallen confirmed to the programme Rundschau that it had used facial recognition software for about a year, only for serious offences and about a dozen times: in a bank-robbery example, investigators built a suspect image from crime-scene video, searched other seized footage and compared faces with the police identification (ED) database of over 90,000 people, getting about 2,000 possible matches, which SRF attributes to a hat, sunglasses and poor video quality; the force described the result as a time-saving pre-selection. The members who tabled a 2021 Zürich cantonal inquiry (KR-Nr. 128/2021) cite a newspaper report of 17 April 2021 naming the tool as Analyze DI Pro from the Swedish company Griffeye. An interpellation in the St. Gallen cantonal parliament (51.24.93, 2 December 2024) says the police told the NZZ am Sonntag (3 November 2024) that they use facial recognition for evaluating mass data, and refers to the use as already practised; a 2026 written question in the Basel-Stadt parliament (26.5151) also cites St. Gallen's use of Griffeye. No usage figures after 2022 were found.",
    "source": "SRF, 26 January 2022",
    "source_url": "https://www.srf.ch/news/schweiz/automatische-gesichtserkennung-verbrecherjagd-mit-umstrittenen-mitteln",
    "last_checked": "2026-11-05",
    "record_url": "https://www.policeainews.com/tracker/record/9552539b-e762-46dc-b525-090afb78b27a"
  },
  "licence": "https://www.policeainews.com/data#licence"
}