Police in the UK will use Live Facial Recognition cameras to scan the crowd outside Boardmasters festival to stop drug dealers from entering the festival. The festival is expected to draw thousands of people to Newquay, Cornwall, near Watergate Bay.
How it Works
The Live Facial Recognition (LFR) technology works by comparing a live camera feed to a pre-determined watchlist of individuals wanted by the police in connection with criminal investigations. If a match is found, trained officers on the ground will review it and decide whether to engage with the person.
The LFR van will be parked at Killacourt, Newquay, not far from the festival site itself. The technology captures measurements of a person’s facial features and compares this mathematical representation to the known faces on the watchlist. If you are not on the list, you cannot be matched. Images of people who are not on the watchlist are automatically and permanently deleted within seconds.
Assistant chief constable Matt Longman said, “We want to make the best use of technology and LFR provides officers with an additional tool to help locate wanted people more quickly, prevent crime and keep communities safe.”
Police and Crime Commissioner Alison Hernandez added, “The police need to use every tool available to find wanted criminals and take them off our streets. The use of live facial recognition has been tried and tested elsewhere, and I am pleased to see our communities here in Devon and Cornwall benefiting from this technology.”
Original reporting: KTBS 3 (Shreveport) — read the source article.
