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Police trying out national database with 750,000 mugshots, MPs told
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2008 05:32:42 -0700
________________________________________ From: Brian Randell [Brian.Randell () ncl ac uk] Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2008 6:40 AM To: David Farber Subject: Police trying out national database with 750,000 mugshots, MPs told Dave: From today's (UK) Guardian newspaper, for IP if you wish.
Police trying out national database with 750,000 mugshots, MPs told · Offenders' faces tracked through CCTV images · Scheme part of 'hi-tech revolution on the beat' The police are developing the first national database of mugshots so that they can use face recognition technology to match CCTV images with details of offenders, MPs were told yesterday. The system is being developed in a pilot scheme involving the Lancashire, West Yorkshire and Merseyside police which has generated a database of more than 750,000 facial images over the past 18 months. Peter Neyroud, the chief executive of the National Police Improvement Agency (NPIA), told MPs yesterday that the development of a national facial images database is just one element of a technological revolution in neighbourhood beat policing. Neyroud, former chief constable of Thames Valley, hopes that by the time of the 2012 London Olympics beat officers will be equipped with advanced "second-generation" hand-held computers which can take and transmit fingerprints, download mugshots and details from the police national computer, and access images from local CCTV cameras. His hi-tech vision of the future of policing was given during the final evidence session of a year-long inquiry by the Commons home affairs select committee into the "surveillance society".
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The police are also developing "behavourial matching" software to pick out odd behaviour in a crowd using CCTV picures. "That might be particularly useful in counter-terrorism or tackling street crime," he said. "The proliferation of CCTV cameras in the UK - with about one for every 14 people - means that we are now accustomed to our movements being monitored in this way and for most people this is not an issue."
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