Facial recognition proof of concept
Up to 50 officers; automatic “Silent Mode”; later review by trained officers.
Preserved 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 ↗No adoption claim yet.
No official post-summit adoption record has been identified. New ledgers remain grounded in independent public records, not conference attendance or timing.
Open Winnipeg's connected-evidence ledger →02A / DOCUMENTED LEDGERS
Eight jurisdictions
Each local record gets its own address.
Open a city ledger for its sourced timeline, connection findings, capability states and unresolved records. The national index remains the place to compare coverage.
Finding 01 · Alberta
Edmonton
Biometric sharing with Calgary, common evidence architecture and police-vendor circulation.
13 records · 8 capabilities → Finding 02 · SaskatchewanRegina
A quote is separated from a purchase, and each documented system keeps its own boundary.
7 records · 8 capabilities → Finding 03 · AlbertaCalgary
The infrastructure, agreement and local platform behind the Edmonton connection.
8 records · 8 capabilities → Finding 04 · AlbertaLethbridge
Axon evidence reaches the Crown, while cross-agency platform access remains unproved.
8 records · 8 capabilities → Finding 05 · AlbertaGrande Prairie
An Edmonton-hosted records bridge gives way to a contracted Axon records, evidence, camera, drone and AI stack.
8 records · 8 capabilities → Finding 06 · British ColumbiaVancouver
Province-wide police records meet live command-centre body and drone video, Fusus, ALPR and translation.
9 records · 10 capabilities → Finding 07 · ManitobaWinnipeg
An evidence backbone serves justice recipients while a separate ballistics workflow connects police partners.
10 records · 11 capabilities → Finding 08 · QuebecMontreal
A $1.8M tendered analytics platform, and a $17,134 plate-reader contract that needed no vote.
15 records · 11 capabilities →03 / NATIONAL INVENTORY
Every reported municipal jurisdiction is visible.
Technology evidence is a separate layer.
The census is complete for the 2025 Statistics Canada municipal table. Edmonton, Regina, Calgary, Lethbridge, Grande Prairie, Vancouver, Winnipeg and Montreal have dedicated evidence ledgers; the remaining jurisdictions are explicitly queued for technology research.
222reported municipal and contract-policed jurisdictions
Source: Statistics Canada Table 35-10-0077-01, 2025 reference year. Rows without a reported officer total and terminated series are excluded. “Census only” means the jurisdiction is verified in the national table but its technology ledger is not yet researched; it does not mean no technology exists.
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, Regina, Calgary, Lethbridge, Grande Prairie, Vancouver, Winnipeg and Montreal are the first documented ledgers. Every national conclusion must be earned from jurisdiction records. When an official source disappears, the project links a dated preserved copy and labels it as preserved.