Force-area record · United Kingdom
Metropolitan
Territorial force: Metropolitan Police Service
Technology presence
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Metropolitan Police Service
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 assessmentHome Office — National ANPR Standards
Live facial recognition in operational use. The force publishes per-deployment records — dates, locations, watchlist sizes, alerts and arrests — with an archive back to 2020.
Sources: Metropolitan Police — facial recognition technology
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