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    "id": "ac516025-d857-49f2-a674-6de5bdbfda0a",
    "code": "PAI-AC516025",
    "force": "Thames Valley Police",
    "country": "United Kingdom",
    "country_code": "uk",
    "is_country": true,
    "region": "Thames Valley, first deployed in Oxford city centre",
    "technology": "Live Facial Recognition",
    "technology_slug": "live-facial-recognition",
    "vendor": "",
    "vendor_slug": "",
    "programme": "",
    "status": "operational",
    "stage": "in-use",
    "evidence": "official",
    "evidence_is_claim": false,
    "since": "December 2025",
    "legal_basis": "",
    "oversight": "",
    "notes": "Two fully equipped LFR vans entered service on Monday 22 December 2025, first deployed on Cornmarket Street in Oxford city centre. The Police and Crime Commissioner announced the launch on 29 December 2025 and stated the vans would be used across the Thames Valley frequently.\n\nNo supplier is named in the announcement, and no statutory authority or independent oversight body is identified. The Commissioner refers to working with the force to ensure safeguards are in place, and to trained operators, bespoke watchlists and automatic deletion of non-matching data, but those are descriptions of practice rather than an oversight arrangement, so the legal basis and oversight fields are left empty rather than filled from inference.\n\nThe site's own news archive already carries reporting of subsequent deployments in Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire, so the deployment was being covered before this record existed.",
    "source": "Thames Valley Police and Crime Commissioner announcement, 29 December 2025",
    "source_url": "https://www.thamesvalley-pcc.gov.uk/news/thames-valley-police-launches-live-facial-recognition-technology",
    "last_checked": "2026-09-03",
    "record_url": "https://www.policeainews.com/tracker/record/ac516025-d857-49f2-a674-6de5bdbfda0a"
  },
  "licence": "https://www.policeainews.com/data#licence"
}