Overview
- The latest report logs 203 deployments between September 2024 and September 2025, generating 2,077 alerts and 962 arrests, bringing total LFR-related arrests to more than 1,400.
- More than a quarter of this year’s arrests involve suspects in violence against women and girls, including alleged rape, strangulation and domestic abuse.
- The Met reports 10 false alerts out of more than three million face scans (0.0003%), with no arrests stemming from a false alert and immediate deletion of biometric data for non-matches.
- Independent testing by the National Physical Laboratory finds the system accurate and balanced across ethnicity and gender at the Met’s operating thresholds (minimum 0.6, typically 0.64).
- The force cites legal recognition from the High Court and Court of Appeal in the Bridges case, regulatory oversight, and outcomes at hotspots such as Notting Hill Carnival, as it prepares to increase weekly deployments.