the United Kingdom’s surveillance technology, as reported
Press coverage naming a UK police force, each story tagged with the technology it covers.
About this index
- Stories listed
- Published or later. Older stories are not listed here.
- Sources last checked
- How stories are found
- UnGovr’s automated news monitoring searches Google News and the GDELT news database for each technology this site tracks and keeps reporting on government use of it.
A story missing from this index is not evidence that no coverage exists, and inclusion records that a story was published, not a finding about the technology it covers. How the monitoring works
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- ALPR
- Face recognition
- Drones / UAS
- Fixed cameras & RTCC
- Schools & transit
The kind of system the story reports on. Type to search the list.
- British Transport Police
- Cambridgeshire
- Cheshire
- City of London
- Devon and Cornwall
- Dorset
- Essex
- Greater Manchester
- Gwent
- Hampshire
- Humberside
- Kent
- Metropolitan
- Norfolk
- North Yorkshire
- Scotland
- Staffordshire
- Thames Valley
- West Midlands
- West Yorkshire
A county, city, police force or other jurisdiction within the United Kingdom.
Whether the article can be read without a subscription. ($) after an outlet’s name marks a paywall.
What the story reports about a system: an expansion, a reduction, or neither. It is the article’s account, not a WatchWatch finding. On a card, + or − after the technology marks it.
Live facial recognition coming to Cambridge city centre
Police use drones to prevent disorder at football matches
Kent Police Department proposes Drone First Responder program
Facial recognition deployed in county first
No stories match the current filters.