Royal Gibraltar Police

The Royal Gibraltar Police's Overt Live Facial Recognition Policy describes permanently installed cameras with live facial recognition at seven sites: the land border with Spain, Four Corners, Winston Churchill Avenue, the airport, Kingsway Tunnel, Casemates and Main Street. The system compares faces against a watchlist and raises an alert at a set similarity threshold; control room officers assess each alert and "The decision to respond to an Alert will not be an automatic process", templates are deleted within 72 hours, and the policy sets a "1:1000 False Alert Rate". The Government of Gibraltar's press release 586/2026 of 23 July 2026 says the system is "operated and maintained 24/7 by an appointed security contractor working in conjunction with the Royal Gibraltar Police", with the force as data controller and managing the watchlists, and that in its first week in operation "A large number of images have been processed" with "no positive matches detected against Police watchlists". The Gibraltar Chronicle reported on 7 August 2026 that the cameras were deployed after immigration controls were removed at the land border under the new treaty, that alerts go to a round-the-clock control room at New Mole House, and that OSG is the contractor which operates the platform; the Commissioner of Police, Owain Richards, said of the results, "We'll wait and see how it goes". The policy carries no issue date and the release gives no exact go-live date, so the start is dated from the release.