Edmonton Police Service (EPS)

Municipal police service for the city of Edmonton, Alberta, serving a population of over one million. EPS has been an early adopter of body‑worn cameras under Alberta’s provincial mandate. - First law-enforcement agency to test Axon facial-recognition bodycams in the field

In December 2025, the Edmonton Police Service (EPS) in Alberta, Canada, began a month-long “proof of concept” in which Axon body-worn cameras run third‑party facial-recognition software to scan passersby against a tightly scoped yet sizable watchlist: 6,341 people flagged in EPS systems for risks such as “violent or assaultive,” “armed and dangerous,” or “high‑risk offender,” plus 724 individuals with serious arrest warrants, for roughly 7,000 faces in total. Officers do not receive real-time alerts during the pilot; instead, footage is analyzed afterward to test accuracy and workflows.

Updated Dec 11, 2025

The Edmonton Police Service is the municipal police force for Edmonton, Alberta’s capital and a city of over 1 million residents. It is the first known agency worldwide to test Axon’s facial‑recognition‑enabled body‑worn cameras in the field. - First police service to deploy Axon facial-recognition-enabled bodycams in live operations

In early December 2025, the Edmonton Police Service (EPS) and U.S. vendor Axon activated a month‑long “proof of concept” in which AI-enabled body‑worn cameras scan the faces of people officers encounter against a “high‑risk” watch list of 6,341 individuals with safety flags and a separate list of 724 people wanted on serious warrants. Axon, which in 2019 publicly promised not to put facial recognition on its body cameras after advice from its independent AI Ethics Board, now frames the project as “early‑stage field research” outside the United States that will inform potential future deployments in North America.

Updated Dec 11, 2025