Facial recognition proof of concept
Up to 50 officers; automatic “Silent Mode”; later review by trained officers.
Primary EPS release ↗
A coast-to-coast authorization atlas
One city at a time.
One network in the end?
A local council hears about a local safety risk. It funds a local tool. Repeat that decision more than 200 times—and ask what the tools become when they can connect.
01 / THE SYSTEM BOUNDARY
The camera is a node.
The network is the system.
Local concern“We have a security risk.”
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Local purchaseCamera, cloud, licence.
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Shared platformAccounts, alerts, identifiers.
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Network capacityNo single national vote.
Local approval and network integration can happen at different layers. This project follows both: what each community was told, and where its data, searches, alerts and permissions can travel afterward.
02 / LEAD CASE
Edmonton, Alberta
Start where the experiment and the chiefs converge.
Why Edmonton leads
EPS publicly described itself as the first police service in the world to test Axon facial recognition through body-worn video. Edmonton then hosted the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police’s 2026 Annual Summit and policing trade show.
Chiefs’ summit + trade show
The CACP prospectus names EPS as host at the Edmonton Convention Centre.
CACP prospectus ↗What travelled next?
Track demonstrations, sponsors, delegates, shared policy, pilots and later contracts.
See the test ↘03 / NATIONAL INVENTORY
Every service is visible.
Absence is a finding about records.
Initial public release: Edmonton documented; Regina seeded; national census reconciliation underway.
200+services and policing jurisdictions in scope
This launch index is deliberately incomplete. “Queued” means the service is in scope; it does not mean no technology exists. The published census will reconcile Statistics Canada, provincial and territorial registries, and RCMP contract-policing records.
04 / THE LEDGER
Seven states. No shortcuts.
A product can exist without being purchased. A licence can exist without being enabled. A test can end without deployment. Every capability is tracked through distinct states.
AVAILABLEPROPOSEDCONTRACTEDLICENSEDTESTEDENABLEDUSED
What problem and purpose were presented?
Who funded, governed, procured and activated?
Term, modules, updates, sharing and exit rights.
What settings and connections were actually live?
Who could contribute, search, receive or retain?
Can a person discover, correct, challenge or delete?
06 / METHOD & LIMITS
Connected is a claim.
We show the connection.
Documented
A source identifies access, sharing, federation, a common watchlist, cross-jurisdiction query or data flow.
Capable
Architecture or terms permit connection, but local activation has not been established.
Unknown
The decisive contract, configuration, access log or agreement has not been obtained.
This is a living public-interest research project, not a claim that every compatible system is connected. Edmonton’s conference and trial are the lead documented starting points. Regina supplies the initial procurement-ledger model. Every national conclusion must be earned from the jurisdiction records.