Metropolitan Police Service

Incidents involved as both Developer and Deployer

Incident 6922 Reports
London Metropolitan Police's Facial Recognition Technology Reportedly Misidentified Shaun Thompson as Suspect Leading to Arrest

2024-02-01

Sometime in February 2024, Shaun Thompson is reported to have walked by one of the London Metropolitan Police's facial recognition technology vans near London Bridge. He was almost immediately arrested because the technology is reported to have misidentified him as a suspect in an unrelated and unspecified crime.

Incident 3094 Reports
Facial Recognition Trial Performed Poorly at Notting Hill Carnival

2017-08-26

The facial recognition trial by London’s Metropolitan Police Service at the Notting Hill Carnival reportedly performed poorly with a high rate of false positives.