Facial recognition helps Minas Gerais police find 2,500 wanted people

Minas Gerais state says that facial recognition on street cameras has helped its military police locate and arrest more than 2,500 people with open arrest warrants since the start of 2025.

  • 2 for an organization

    The police report more than 2,500 arrests of people with open warrants made with the tool’s support since 2025.

  • Not rated for society

    The sources give no measure of crime or safety for the public.

Depth runs from 1, a small gain, to 5, survival.

Status
Realized benefit.
Evidence

foundstudiedreportedclaimed

Only the deployer supports the benefit.

Certainty

Very low.

Starts very low because the source gives no method.

Size

No magnitude yet. These inputs are not documented:

  • reach
  • distribution
The system’s part
Not isolated. The state credits the tool with support in the arrests but does not separate its part from officers’ work, and it gives no count of false alerts.
Limits
The figures are the state’s own. The report gives no count of false alerts or of people stopped in error, and it does not separate the tool’s part from officers’ work.
Trade-offs
No costs or harms are reported in the sources.
Learns from data

Not shown. The report describes face comparison but not how the system was built.

Later
Nothing later is known. The benefit was first reported on 5 November 2026, and no later report was found.

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System
Facial recognition in the video monitoring of the Polícia Militar de Minas Gerais
Used by
Polícia Militar de Minas Gerais (PMMG)
Where
Minas Gerais, Brazil
Stage
In routine use
Date
, when the source was published
Kind
Aggregate result
Broad benefit
Physical health (crime reduction or prevention)

Sources

  1. Press release, by the organization that used it.

    Agência Minas, republished by Jornal da Manhã (JM Online), 5 November 2026.

    Desde o início de 2025, mais de 2,5 mil pessoas com mandados de prisão em aberto já foram localizadas e presas com o apoio da ferramenta.Translation: Since the start of 2025, more than 2,500 people with open arrest warrants have been located and arrested with the support of the tool.
    Câmeras instaladas em vias públicas captam imagens em tempo real, que são encaminhadas para uma central e comparadas com informações disponíveis nos sistemas da corporação.Translation: Cameras installed on public roads capture images in real time, which are sent to a control center and compared with information available in the force's systems.

Details

AI system

Workflow

Street cameras that send live images to a control center. Comparison of faces with the police’s data on open warrants.

Follow-up

Conditions for replication

The warrant data must be accurate and current. Officers must check each alert before an arrest.

The entry

Sector

Policing.

Purpose

The military police of Minas Gerais compare street-camera images with the information in their systems to find people with open arrest warrants.

Cite this benefit

Peter H. Vartanian. (2026). Facial recognition helps Minas Gerais police find 2,500 wanted people (AIBD-1230). Artificial Intelligence Benefits Database. https://petervartanian.xyz/aibd/records/AIBD-1230.html (archived at https://doi.org/10.57967/hf/11470)

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