A trust-led overview for AI systems in law enforcement, focused on legal basis, fundamental rights and proportionality.
Law enforcement is a sensitive Annex III area. Assessment must start with authority, necessity, proportionality and impact on fundamental rights.
The draft guidelines cover victim risk, polygraphs, evidence reliability, offending/reoffending and profiling in detection, investigation or prosecution.
Is AI used in a context where criminal assessment, profiling or evidence evaluation can directly affect people?
AI assessing the risk of a natural person becoming the victim of a criminal offence.
AI for polygraphs or similar tools, and AI evaluating the reliability of evidence.
AI assessing concrete persons for offending/reoffending or profiling in detection, investigation or prosecution.
Use this page as a classification overview and route into legal-governance review.
Short answers for classification, evidence and next steps under Annex III.
The draft guidelines cover victim risk, polygraphs, evidence reliability, offending/reoffending and profiling in detection, investigation or prosecution. The practical starting question is: Is AI used in a context where criminal assessment, profiling or evidence evaluation can directly affect people?
This domain page expands the main routes: Risk of becoming a victim, Polygraphs and reliability of evidence and Offending, reoffending and profiling. For each system, check the intended purpose, the output and the impact on access, rights or safety.
Document the intended purpose, use context, relevant Annex III route, Article 6(3) assessment, any profiling, provider/deployer roles and the required safeguards.