# Western Australia police facial recognition trial scans more than a million faces, leads to 122 arrests

https://mins.news/en/item/124825

- The Guardian, 2026-11-02 02:02 UTC
- Society
- Original: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/nov/02/wa-police-facial-recognition-technology-trial

> Western Australian police say their five-month real-time facial recognition trial scanned 1,380,882 faces, resulting in 122 arrests and nine incorrect alerts. Civil liberties advocates challenged the way police calculated the error rate. The vans have been withdrawn from public deployment for an internal review.