Force-area record · United Kingdom

Essex

Territorial force: Essex Police

2 Deployments on record

1 Operators

2 Technology categories

Technology presence

ANPR · 1 Fixed cameras & RTCC · none on record Face recognition · 1 Drones / UAS · none on record Gunshot detection · none on record Body-worn & dashcam · none on record Doorbell & camera registry · none on record Cell-site simulators · none on record Predictive policing · none on record Social-media monitoring · none on record

The record, by operator

Essex Police

2 deployments

ANPR

Named participant in the National ANPR Service (NAS), the UK's national automatic number plate recognition infrastructure, per the Home Office NAS data protection impact assessment; per-force compliance is reported in the Home Office National ANPR Standards reports.

Sources: Home Office — National ANPR Service data protection impact assessment Home Office — National ANPR Standards

Face recognition

Live facial recognition in operational use since August 2024; the force publishes a cumulative deployment-results dataset.

Sources: Essex Police — live facial recognition

Source: the public record — each force's published deployment records and UK government publications (Crown material under the Open Government Licence v3.0); per-entry citations on each record · retrieved July 2026