Policía Nacional del Perú (Centro de Comando, Control, Cómputo y Comunicaciones, C4)

General Javier Gonzáles, director of the Peruvian National Police's technology and communications directorate, said on 19 November 2025 that of about 3,000 police surveillance cameras nationwide, 500 were already operating with artificial intelligence, and that the full 3,000 would be running with AI between January and February 2026. The facial recognition component matches faces against a register of about 18,000 people with outstanding arrest warrants, with a claimed accuracy of 91 per cent, and sends an alert to the mobile phones of the responsible police unit when a match is made. Monitoring runs from the C4 command centre, coordinating with municipal camera systems in Lince, Surco and Miraflores and with the Falcon intervention unit; the force said it would add about 100 officers and seven dedicated rooms. The first arrest attributed to the system, of Jack Bebeto Rengifo, was made at the C4 in November 2025, and América TV reported in 2026 that trials in shopping centres and busy streets had led to 20 people being located and detained before the technology was extended to two-megapixel cameras capturing the face of each passenger boarding participating Lima buses. A further 10,000 cameras were announced for Lima at a later phase; that expansion is an announcement and is not part of this record. status is 'operational' on the strength of the 500 AI cameras already running and the arrests made, not on the announced 3,000. legalBasis and oversight are empty: no source establishes a statute, regulation or supervisory body for police facial recognition in Peru, and the accuracy figure is the force's own claim rather than an independent measurement. Sources are in Spanish.

Update, November 2026. Panamericana, in an undated online report published around April 2026, describes a visit by the Vice Minister of Internal Order, Juan Olivera, to the police C4 command centre and says AI tools including facial recognition "han facilitado la identificación y detención de sospechosos" (have made it easier to identify and detain suspects). It reports that 25 wanted people listed in the Interior Ministry's rewards programme had been captured from November 2025, the latest on a public transport vehicle. Officials discussed expanding the system with new technology modules and closer coordination with regional governments; no timeline or budget is given.