According to a new report published by the Metropolitan Police, use of Live Facial Recognition (LFR) technology is making London safer.

Between September 2024 and September 2025, LFR deployments led to 962 arrests. More than a quarter of these were for individuals involved in violence against women and girls, including those suspected of rape, strangulation and domestic abuse.

The total of LFR arrests is now over 1400 and more than 1000 people have been charged or cautioned.

Those arrested include people who were wanted by police or the courts, as well as offenders who were in breach of court-imposed conditions, such as sex offenders or stalkers.

The false alert rate is 0.0003 per cent from more than three million faces scanned. Nobody has been arrested as a result of a false alert.

Lindsey Chiswick, the lead for LFR at the Met and nationally, said “We are proud of the results achieved with LFR. Our goal has always been to keep Londoners safe and improve the trust of our communities. Using this technology is helping us do exactly that.

“This is a powerful and game-changing tool, which is helping us to remove dangerous offenders from our streets and deliver justice for victims.

“We remain committed to being transparent and engaging with communities about our use of LFR, to demonstrate we are using it fairly and without bias.”