Conservatives call for greater use of facial recognition from police

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News Source : BBC News

News Summary

  • Shadow home secretary Chris Philp wants to make it a requirement for officers to run images of suspects through facial recognition software.
  • He also wants officers to follow up when geo-tagged items - including phones, laptops, tablets, bikes and cars - are pinging their location at a suspect's address.
  • Philp said the Conservative's Take Back Our Streets plan would put all three elements into practice, backed up by 10,000 extra police officers.
  • Labour has pledged an extra 13,000 neighbourhood police by the end of this Parliament.
The Conservatives have called for the greater use of facial recognition technology to investigate crimes.

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