{
  "record": {
    "id": "970670ed-58e7-448b-a3f7-38ac8595d452",
    "code": "PAI-970670ED",
    "force": "South Wales Police",
    "country": "United Kingdom",
    "country_code": "uk",
    "is_country": true,
    "region": "South Wales",
    "technology": "Retrospective facial recognition",
    "technology_slug": "retrospective-facial-recognition",
    "vendor": "",
    "vendor_slug": "",
    "programme": "",
    "status": "operational",
    "stage": "in-use",
    "evidence": "official",
    "evidence_is_claim": false,
    "since": "2017",
    "legal_basis": "Common law policing powers, with a separate South Wales Police and Gwent Police RFR Legal Mandate covering the Human Rights Act 1998, Equality Act 2010, Protection of Freedoms Act 2012, Data Protection Act 2018 and Freedom of Information Act 2000 (as stated in the forces' policy document)",
    "oversight": "Joint South Wales Police and Gwent Police FRT Programme Board reporting to the Gold Board; Police and Crime Commissioners' offices; NPCC Facial Recognition Technology Board; ICO audit (August 2025)",
    "notes": "The joint South Wales Police and Gwent Police policy for retrospective facial recognition (version 0.4, approved 28 April 2025, review date 29 June 2026) states that \"RFR has been used by SWP since 2017 and in GWP since 2021\". It describes a system that searches an image reference database of \"lawfully held known Candidate Images\", names no supplier and does not mention the Police National Database; the \"Neoface M40\" algorithm appears only in its account of a National Physical Laboratory equitability study. The Information Commissioner's Office executive summary of its consensual audit of the two forces (version 1.0, August 2025) rated retrospective facial recognition \"high\" assurance and made 11 recommendations on it (one high, six medium and four low priority); unlike the live facial recognition rating, the retrospective rating is not marked as applying to one force only. The summary names no supplier. The force's live and operator-initiated facial recognition are recorded separately, as is Gwent Police's retrospective use.",
    "source": "South Wales Police and Gwent Police joint RFR policy v0.4, April 2025; ICO audit summary, August 2025",
    "source_url": "https://www.gwent.police.uk/SysSiteAssets/media/downloads/gwent/about-us/facial-recognition/rfr/policy-document-for-the-use-of-rfr-rfr---eng.pdf",
    "last_checked": "2026-11-05",
    "record_url": "https://www.policeainews.com/tracker/record/970670ed-58e7-448b-a3f7-38ac8595d452"
  },
  "licence": "https://www.policeainews.com/data#licence"
}