Police: Biometrics

(asked on 20th June 2019) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of the facial recognition technology being trialled by the police.


Answered by
Nick Hurd Portrait
Nick Hurd
This question was answered on 27th June 2019

The Government supports the police in trialling this technology, which has the potential to improve public safety. Cardiff University published their independent review of South Wales Police’s trials in November 2018, and the University of Essex is due to publish its review of the Metropolitan Police Service trials shortly. Possible matches produced by these systems are always checked by a human operator before deciding what, if any, action to take.

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