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    "id": "e9682d62-cfe4-4bb2-ab85-b3d255f85b5e",
    "code": "PAI-E9682D62",
    "force": "North Wales Police",
    "country": "United Kingdom",
    "country_code": "uk",
    "is_country": true,
    "region": "North Wales",
    "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": "May 2024",
    "legal_basis": "",
    "oversight": "",
    "notes": "Listed by the Home Office among 13 forces that had used or were using live facial recognition as of November 2025. The factsheet gives no detail of this force's deployments.\n\nUpdate, November 2026. ID Tech reports that North Wales Police began using live facial recognition at Holyhead port on 21 and 22 May 2024 as a pilot, with a policy document completed by April 2024, and that on 3 September 2024 the force announced continued use at specific events across the region with South Wales Police as a partner. The start date is therefore May 2024, earlier than the Home Office factsheet date this record used. Supplier not named in the report. The force's own release was not read.",
    "source": "Home Office, Police use of facial recognition: factsheet (forces listed as of November 2025)",
    "source_url": "https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/police-use-of-facial-recognition/police-use-of-facial-recognition-factsheet",
    "last_checked": "2026-11-04",
    "record_url": "https://www.policeainews.com/tracker/record/e9682d62-cfe4-4bb2-ab85-b3d255f85b5e"
  },
  "licence": "https://www.policeainews.com/data#licence"
}