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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Patrick Daly

Policing minister urges forces to double use of facial recognition software

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Police are being encouraged to double their use of retrospective facial recognition software to track down offenders over the next six months.

Policing minister Chris Philp has written to force chiefs suggesting the target of exceeding 200,000 searches of still images against the Police National Database by May using facial recognition technology.

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