{"value":{"id":1176216,"askingMemberId":4204,"askingMember":null,"house":"Lords","memberHasInterest":false,"dateTabled":"2020-02-04T00:00:00","dateForAnswer":"2020-02-18T00:00:00","uin":"HL1336","questionText":"To ask Her Majesty's Government, during the recent Metropolitan Police trial of automated facial recognition technology, how many individuals on the system’s watchlist were correctly identified; how many alerts resulted in (1) an arrest, and (2) a subsequent conviction; and for which offences.","answeringBodyId":1,"answeringBodyName":"Home Office","isWithdrawn":false,"isNamedDay":false,"groupedQuestions":[],"answerIsHolding":false,"answerIsCorrection":false,"answeringMemberId":4311,"answeringMember":null,"correctingMemberId":null,"correctingMember":null,"dateAnswered":"2020-02-17T00:00:00","answerText":"<p>The Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) are operationally independent of government.</p><p>They have disclosed the following information:</p><p><strong>Costs</strong></p><p>The MPS have records of Live Facial Recognition software and associated hardware at a current total cost of £240,000.</p><p>The MPS have no record of other costs relating to preparatory work or associated manpower.</p><p><strong>Outcomes</strong></p><p>During their trials ten individuals on the system’s watchlist were correctly identified, resulting in eight arrests (these figures discount alerts generated by test subjects).</p><p>The offences for which they were arrested were: false imprisonment; breach of non-molestation order; two counts of rape; discharge of firearm; breach of restraining order and harassment; domestic assault and theft; robbery and assault on police.</p><p>Two of these arrests have resulted in convictions so far (breach of non-molestation order and assault on police).</p>","originalAnswerText":"","comparableAnswerText":"","dateAnswerCorrected":null,"dateHoldingAnswer":null,"attachmentCount":0,"heading":"Police: Biometrics","attachments":[],"groupedQuestionsDates":[]},"links":[{"rel":"self","href":"/Questions/1176216","method":"GET"}]}