Three people have been arrested - including a man suspected of rape - after Essex Police deployed facial recognition cameras onto its streets. A specialist van matches faces to a database.
Images of members of the public are 'immediately and automatically deleted'Three people have been arrested - including a man suspected of rape - after a police force deployed facial recognition cameras onto its streets.
The deployment was targeted to focus on a specific list of people wanted in connection with high harm offences, such as violent or sexual offences. Officers on patrol received five alerts on faces that matched the database of highly sought-after people during the two-day operation. They also managed to identify a potential witness to another sexual abuse case who agreed to be interviewed at a later date.
'This means that these investigations are able to be progressed as a direct result of our use of this technology. If you walk through an area where LFR is being deployed and you are not one of the specific people police are trying to locate, your image will be 'immediately and automatically' deleted, police say
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