Policing Notting Hill Carnival

Freedom of information request reference no: 01.FOI.24.035627

I note you seek access to the following information:

Dear FOI representative, thank you for receiving my message. In accordance with the Freedom of Information act 2000, I would like to make a request for information.

1. Policing Notting Hill Carnival: Please provide information about the use of and or expected use of facial recognition during the Notting Hill Carnival.
2.  Digital Policing Notting Hill Carnival. Please provide information about the digital policing that was deployed to police the Notting Hill Carnival 2023 and or 2024.
3. Voice recognition Notting Hill Carnival. Please provide me with information about the use of and or expected use of voice recognition during the Notting Hill Carnival.
4. Digital Policing Strategy. Please provide me with the most recent MET police digital policing strategy.
5. Gender and Race Impact Analysis: Please provide me with a copy of the Gender and race impact analysis for the Met Police 2020-2023 digital policing strategy.
6. Gender and Race Impact Analysis: Please provide me with a copy of the Gender and Race Impact analysis for the Met Police's most recent digital policing strategy.

Decision

I have today decided to disclose the located information to you in full.

Please find below information pursuant to your request above.

Q1 - Policing Notting Hill Carnival: Please provide information about the use of and or expected use of facial recognition during the Notting Hill Carnival.

Live facial recognition was not used at NHC 2023.

Q2 - Digital Policing Notting Hill Carnival. Please provide information about the digital policing that was deployed to police the Notting Hill Carnival 2023 and or 2024.

Digital Policing has a number of roles at Notting Hill Carnival such as the provision of radio services and ensuring stable IT during high demand over that weekend.

Q3 - Voice recognition Notting Hill Carnival. Please provide me with information about the use of and or expected use of voice recognition during the Notting Hill Carnival.

No voice recognition was employed throughout NHC 2023.

Q4 - Digital Policing Strategy. Please provide me with the most recent MET police digital policing strategy.

You can download the full version via this link:

Met Strategic Digital Enabling Framework 2021-25.pdf

Q5 - Gender and Race Impact Analysis: Please provide me with a copy of the Gender and race impact analysis for the Met Police 2020-2023 digital policing strategy.
Q6 - Gender and Race Impact Analysis: Please provide me with a copy of the Gender and Race Impact analysis for the Met Police's most recent digital policing strategy.

There are no separate gender and race impact assessments held.

The MPS Digital Strategy is written to deliver the overall vision of the MPS, with Race and Gender as a central aspect of that vision. The Digital Strategy is governed at senior level to ensure that every aspect is appropriately addressed and conformant with the wider MPS strategy. It should be noted that the Digital Strategy is at a conceptual level and does not go to a level of detail that ensure diversity issues are comprehensively covered.

The Digital Strategy is delivered through a series of projects which set out the full implementation details. All business cases include a specific risk assessment for all possible impacts on diversity and inclusion, including Gender and Race. This risk assessment is governed at senior level.”