Facial Recognition Technology
Benefits
Improves accuracy and precision in identifying suspects compared to manual methods. Enables police to effectively scan crowds in high-traffic areas like Waterloo station (which sees a quarter million people daily) against watchlists of up to 100 different faces of serious criminals. Enhances crime prevention capabilities in transport hubs, football grounds, and other hotspots for criminal activity.
Details
- Tool name
- Facial Recognition Technology
- Organisation
- Metropolitan Police Service South Wales Police
- Status
- live
- AI method (as recorded)
- Computer Vision, Other
- AI method (normalised tags)
- Computer Vision Other
- Usecase
- Security and Monitoring
- Origin
- science.police.uk
- Owning team
- Metropolitan Police Service (Met) and National Police Chiefs' Council (NPCC)
- Date added
- 5 April 2023
- Scrape date
- Source note
- Live facial recognition technology used by police to identify suspects in real-time, particularly in high-traffic areas such as transport hubs, football grounds, and other crime hotspots. [Source]