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  "record": {
    "id": "a98dfc01-ad63-4f3d-9ee1-9f4dabbb238f",
    "code": "PAI-A98DFC01",
    "force": "Ministry of Interior and National Administration (Kenya)",
    "country": "Kenya",
    "country_code": "ke",
    "is_country": true,
    "region": "Nairobi, Mombasa, Kisumu, Nakuru, Eldoret and Nyeri",
    "technology": "National CCTV facial recognition network linked to the national identity database",
    "technology_slug": "remote-biometric-id-proposed",
    "vendor": "",
    "vendor_slug": "",
    "programme": "",
    "status": "proposed",
    "stage": "horizon",
    "evidence": "journalism",
    "evidence_is_claim": false,
    "since": "",
    "legal_basis": "",
    "oversight": "",
    "notes": "Established by two independent sources reporting the same statement by Interior Cabinet Secretary Kipchumba Murkomen. Capital FM, 24 June 2026: the system is in the final stages of procurement, estimated at 22 to 25 billion Kenyan shillings, to be rolled out across six major cities, connecting surveillance cameras to national identity databases through a central command system, with deployment expected within three to six months, and phased implementation possible through private sector partnerships. Capital FM reports the stated purpose as identifying and tracking individuals accused of infiltrating protests and engaging in violence including property destruction. Biometric Update, June 2026: the same announcement, naming the six cities, the roughly 25 billion shilling cost, and integration of the National Registration Bureau database with police CCTV so faces can be matched against civil ID photographs; Murkomen is quoted saying 'Once we establish this technology, we will slowly build in the data of various people based on information in the ID', and defending the plan on the ground that cameras would be installed only in public spaces.\n\nStatus is proposed, and deliberately so. A procurement in its final stages is not a deployment. Nothing read establishes that any camera under this programme has been installed or that any facial matching against the identity register has occurred. The three-to-six month timeline from June 2026 means this record should be re-checked rather than left to the next cycle.\n\nThe stated purpose is unusually explicit and is recorded here because it matters to how the system should be read: this is a national biometric identification network whose announced first application is the identification of protesters.\n\nFields left out and why. 'vendor' is omitted: no supplier is named. 'legalBasis' is omitted: no statute, regulation or authorisation instrument was established by any page read, and populating a police facial recognition database from the civil identity register is precisely the point on which a legal basis would be needed. 'oversight' is omitted: none established. 'since' is omitted: nothing has started.\n\nSecond claim, deliberately not made a record. Biometric Update also states that Kenya's National Police Service already operates NEC facial recognition within the Integrated Command, Control and Communication Centre launched in 2018. That rests on that single article, no corroborating source was found, and it is left on the watch list rather than asserted.",
    "source": "Capital FM",
    "source_url": "https://capitalfm.africa/govt-plans-sh25bn-facial-recognition-system-to-track-protest-goons/",
    "last_checked": "2026-09-09",
    "record_url": "https://www.policeainews.com/tracker/record/a98dfc01-ad63-4f3d-9ee1-9f4dabbb238f"
  },
  "licence": "https://www.policeainews.com/data#licence"
}