Denver CO PD

Transparency Portal

Last Updated: Thu Sep 19 2024
Overview
The Denver Police Department uses Flock Safety technology to capture objective evidence without compromising on individual privacy. The Denver Police Department utilizes retroactive searches to solve crimes after they've occurred. Additionally, the Denver Police Department utilizes real time alerting of hotlist vehicles to capture wanted criminals and to recover stolen vehicles. In an effort to ensure proper usage and guardrails are in place, the Denver Police Department has made the below policies and usage statistics available to the public.
Policies
What's Detected
License Plates, Vehicles
What's Not Detected
Facial recognition, People, Gender, Race
Acceptable Use Policy
Data is used for law enforcement purposes only. Data is owned by the Denver Police Department and is never sold to 3rd parties.
Prohibited Uses
Immigration enforcement, traffic enforcement, harassment or intimidation, usage based solely on a protected class (i.e. race, sex, religion), or personal use.
Access Policy
System search access shall only be conducted in relation to criminal investigations or a criminal nexus. A case number and reasons for the search are required to conduct a search and is limited to authorized law enforcement personnel.
System Access History
Flock data is only retained for 30 days. However, an audit trail of the users who accessed the system is stored indefinitely.
Hotlist Policy
Hotlist hits (i.e., stolen vehicles, wanted vehicles, missing persons, etc.) that are entered into the CCIC/NCIC, NCMEC/Amber Alert systems will provide an alert notification. Based on policy all scanned license plates are required to be verified by law enforcement personnel and checked in the CCIC/NCIC information system(s) prior to action.
Non-Law Enforcement Access to ALPR Data
The use of the ALPR system to locate a plate can only be accessed by a law enforcement agency in conjunction to a criminal investigation or criminal nexus and cannot be used to respond to record requests by the public. However, if information from within the ALPR system was used as evidence in an investigation, those requests would be reviewed under the Colorado Criminal Justice Records Act to determine whether such records should be released.
Usage
Data retention (in days)
30 days
Number of owned cameras
95
Hotlists Alerted On
NCIC, NCMEC Amber Alert, Colorado Crime Information Center (CCIC)
External organizations with access
Adams County CO SO, Arapahoe County CO SO, Arvada CO PD, Aurora CO PD, Avon CO PD, Basalt CO PD, Boulder CO PD, Boulder County CO SO, Broomfield CO PD, Castle Rock CO PD, Chaffee County CO SO, Cherry Hills Village CO PD, CO - Colorado Bureau of Investigation, CO - Colorado State Parks, CO - Fort Collins PD, CO - Keenesburg PD , Colorado Springs CO PD, Commerce City CO PD, Douglas County CO SO, Durango CO PD, Edgewater CO PD, El Paso CO SO, Elizabeth CO PD, Englewood CO PD, Firestone CO PD, Frederick CO PD, Garfield County CO SO, Georgetown CO PD, Golden CO PD, Grand County CO SO, Gunnison County CO SO, Hayden CO PD, Hotchkiss CO PD, Hudson CO PD, Jackson County CO SO, Jefferson County CO SO, Johnstown CO PD, Lafayette CO PD, Lakewood CO PD, Larimer County CO SO, Lincoln County CO SO, Lochbuie CO PD , Lone Tree CO PD, Louisville CO PD, Loveland CO PD, Mead CO PD, Moffat County SO CO, Montrose CO PD, Morrison CO PD, Mountain Village PD (CO), Northern Colorado Intelligence Unit CO, Northglenn CO PD, Parker CO PD, Prowers County SO (CO), Pueblo CO PD, Routt County CO SO, Salida CO PD, Silt CO PD, Summit County CO SO, Thornton CO PD, Town of Lyons CO, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus CO PD, Vail CO PD, Weld County CO SO, Westminster CO PD, Windsor CO PD
Vehicles detected in the last 30 days
2,077,502
Hotlist hits in the last 30 days
86,069
Searches in the last 30 days
1,436