Denmark, Copenhagen
Københavns Politi (Copenhagen Police)
Object and facial recognition in investigative video review
TrialOfficial publicationPAI-BA94B600
- Body
- Københavns Politi (Copenhagen Police)
- Country
- Denmark
- Area
- Copenhagen
- Technology
- Object and facial recognition in investigative video review
- Supplier
- Not stated in the source
- Programme
- Rigspolitiet facial recognition pilot
- Status
- Trial
Being tested in live conditions under a time-limited pilot or trial. - Stage
- In use now
- Since
- March 2025
- Legal basis
- Guidelines issued by Rigspolitiet and Koebenhavns Politi set out which case types the technology may be used in. Facial recognition is limited to serious crime against the person - the announcement names murder, attempted murder, aggravated violence and rape - to state security cases and to special operations. Object recognition may be used in all criminal cases.
- Oversight
- A data protection impact assessment was carried out and submitted to Datatilsynet, the Danish Data Protection Authority. Every use must be documented in the case file, and every video sequence the system identifies must be reviewed manually by an investigator before it is used in an investigation.
- Evidence
- Official publication
Police force, government department or public body publication - Source
- Rigspolitiet
- Last checked
- Record code
PAI-BA94B600
Notes
Established by the Danish National Police's own announcement of 7 March 2025, which is the source for every field above. The status is recorded as trial, not operational, because that announcement describes a pilot run by Rigspolitiet with Koebenhavns Politi, confined during the pilot to the Copenhagen police district and stated to run until autumn 2025. IMPORTANT CAVEAT FOR REVIEW: no source read in this run establishes what happened when that pilot period ended. Searching in Danish for an evaluation, an extension or a roll-out to other police districts returned nothing beyond the original announcement and its republication. The record therefore describes the last state established by evidence, and may understate current use. Danish reporting read in this run also refers to a preceding political agreement between the government and four parties permitting police facial recognition for serious crime against the person, state security cases and manhunts, and excluding real-time use; that agreement is not dated in the page read and is not relied on for any field here. Vendor left empty: no supplier is named in the announcement.