The Metropolitan Police plans to install the UK's first permanent live facial recognition cameras in Croydon, an area with a significant Black population, despite objections from local councillors regarding lack of community engagement. Scheduled for summer 2025, the cameras will provide police with a 'business as usual' tool for crime detection, moving beyond the reliance on mobile units. Croydon MP Chris Philp supports the initiative, suggesting it increases the chances of capturing wanted criminals and questioning the rationale of privacy concerns opponents express.
The decision to set up facial recognition cameras permanently has taken place without any community engagement from the force with local residents.
Using fixed cameras is the logical next step in the roll-out of this technology, which will ensure even more wanted criminals get caught.
The end result will see cameras covering a defined area and will give us much more flexibility around the days and times we can run the operations.
Those few people opposing this technology need to explain why they don't want those wanted criminals to be arrested.
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