Facial Recognition in Cyprus (Law Enforcement)

Facial Recognition in Cyprus (Law Enforcement)
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Deployment Status	Planned
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Deployment End Date
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City	Nicosia
Country	Cyprus
Involved Entities
Keywords	Facial Recognition
Technology Deployed	Facial Recognition Software by Unidas
Information Certainty
Primary sources
Datasets Used	ISIS Faces Database (Cyprus)
Deployment Type	Criminal investigations
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managed by	The Photographic and Graphic Laboratory of Criminalistic Services
used by	The Photographic and Graphic Laboratory of Criminalistic Services
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Deployment Purpose: Criminal investigations

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Products and Institutions:

Product Deployed	Facial Recognition Software by Unidas
Institutions ⠉	Unidas
Datasets	ISIS Faces Database (Cyprus)
Search software

Status and Events:

Status	Planned
Events
Start Date
End Date

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Involved Entities
Managed by	The Photographic and Graphic Laboratory of Criminalistic Services
Used by	The Photographic and Graphic Laboratory of Criminalistic Services

Location:

City	Nicosia
Country ⠉	Cyprus

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Description

As of May 2020, automated FR has not been implemented in Cyprus in relation to criminal investigation. However, the preparation for its implementation is underway. The Photographic and Graphic Laboratory of Criminalistic Services responsible for the implementation has acquired a FR system (ISIS Faces Fire from Unidas). The implementation is expected to finish during 2021-2022.

In addition, the Criminalistic Services of Cyprus Police has a database known as ISIS Faces that contains the facial images of convicted persons and there are plans to use it for FR searches in criminal investigations.

At the present time, only manual 1:1 facial image comparisons are performed by facial comparison experts of the Photographic and Graphic Laboratory of Criminalistic Services. The results of these comparisons can be used as evidence in court.1

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