Pre-October 2026 Live Facial Recognition Accessible Statistics
This pages provides live facial recognition data in a more accessible format from 2024 until the end of September 2026.
The threshold settings for all deployments shown in the table is 0.64.
The threshold setting affects the number of matches the system makes. It can be set by the user. The lower the threshold the more likely the system will make a match so a higher threshold leads to more accuracy.
See the latest statistics from October 2026 here.
| Location | Date | Watch List | Alerts | Interventions | Arrests / Disposals | Faces Seen |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Basingstoke | 01/10/26 | 3761 | 8 | - | 2/5 | 15959 |
| Portsmouth | 30/09/26 | 3751 | 11 | - | 1/7 | 16174 |
| Southampton | 10/09/26 | 3741 | 11 | - | 4/5 | 26501 |
| Portsmouth | 30/08/26 | 2865 | 5 | - | 1/3 | 35390 |
| Winchester | 19/08/26 | 5826 | 4 | - | 3/3 | 26041 |
| Basingstoke | 06/08/26 | 3084 | 2 | - | 2/2 | 18857 |
| Portsmouth | 29/07/26 | 4154 | 2 | - | 1/0 | 8706 |
| Eastleigh | 22/07/26 | 3650 | 4 | - | 1 | 13020 |
| Winchester | 13/07/26 | 4211 | 0 | - | 0 | 15499 |
| Portsmouth | 10/06/26 | 2758 | 3 | - | 2/2 | 6890 |
| Southsea | 27/05/26 | 2630 | 0 | - | 0 | 5591 |
| Southampton | 07/05/26 | 2463 | 5 | - | 2*/2 | 18904 |
| Winchester | 05/05/26 | 1953 | 2 | - | 0 | 44867 |
| Basingstoke | 17/04/26 | 1827 | 2 | - | 1 | 36038 |
| Aldershot | 02/04/26 | 1891 | 0 | - | 0 | 22700 |
| Portsmouth | 23/03/26 | 1974 | 3 | - | 1/1 | 29269 |
| Andover | 13/03/26 | 1991 | 0 | - | 1* | 8453 |
| Basingstoke | 27/02/26 | 2026 | 2 | - | 1/1*** | 25096 |
| Southampton | 09/02/26 | 1872 | 4 | - | 2/1 | 15212 |
| Portsmouth | 26/01/26 | 1856 | 1 | - | 0 | 17067 |
| Southampton | 18/12/25 | 1863 | 0 | 0 | 1* | 1227 |
| Winchester | 12/09/24 | 1061 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 105488 |
| Basingstoke | 12/09/24 | 1061 | 4 | 4 | 5* | 40254 |
| Southampton | 11/09/24 | 1093 | 1 | 1 | 2* | 109740 |
| Portsmouth | 10/09/24 | 1142 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 66980 |
* Individual(s) arrested during deployment however not as a result of an alert.
**Watch list number is the number of faces the system has on it at any one time to compare against the people it sees.
*** 1 individual with a disposal however not as a result of an alert.
There were no incorrect alerts at any of the above deployments.
Official statistics collected changed in 2026 and no longer include interventions.