China, Xinjiang
Xinjiang regional police
Integrated Joint Operations Platform (IJOP), supplied by State-developed, with Hikvision (CETC) reported as an equipment supplier
OperationalCivil society reportPAI-5786EAF4
- Body
- Xinjiang regional police
- Country
- China
- Area
- Xinjiang
- Technology
- Integrated Joint Operations Platform (IJOP)
- Supplier
- State-developed, with Hikvision (CETC) reported as an equipment supplier
- Status
- Operational
In routine use by the named body, on the evidence of a public source. - Stage
- In use now
- Since
- 2016
- Legal basis
- State “Strike Hard” campaign policy; described by Human Rights Watch as contrary to Chinese law and international human rights obligations
- Oversight
- None independent; documented externally through investigative research rather than official reporting
- Evidence
- Civil society report
Report by a human rights or civil liberties organisation - Source
- Human Rights Watch, “China’s Algorithms of Repression: Reverse Engineering a Xinjiang Police Mass Surveillance App”
- Last checked
- Record code
PAI-5786EAF4
Notes
An algorithmic policing platform in Xinjiang that aggregates personal and behavioural data to generate alerts on individuals considered suspicious, which are transmitted to police for follow-up. Human Rights Watch, writing in April 2026, continues to describe IJOP in the present tense as a mass surveillance tool in place in the region.
Labour transfer programmes tied to this surveillance apparatus have expanded from 11 to 14 provinces since a 2020 ASPI report first documented them, with new destinations including Shandong, Henan and Jiangsu. Uyghur returnees to China are reported to face facial recognition flagging at airports and immediate police interview, with documented cases of returnees disappearing within weeks of arrival.
A note on a claim this entry does not make: material circulating about an IJOP 2.0 upgrade during 2026 traces to a low-quality source and is not recorded here pending primary corroboration. An earlier version of this entry referred to that upgrade; it has been removed.
As with the Skynet entry, this rests on researchers working under significant state restriction on independent verification.