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Since 2012, a man who escaped because he attacked a police officer in Poland in Poland, was caught by a new face recognition application used by the South Wales Police.
Southern Wales and Gwent police are the first forces to use the Facial Recognition (OIFR) application in the UK, which allows them to identify individuals by touching a button almost instantly.
Police application can also be used to define those who may have given false details or refuse to provide details. The vulnerability may define even those who cannot provide details due to unconsciousness or death.
At the beginning of this month, it turned out that similar software led to the arrest of approximately 1,000 criminals, including pedophiles, rapists and severe robbers.
In the South Wales, 50 searches were made using the application, which resulted in 10 arrests, two people were reported for calls, two were defined for innocent issues, and no six actions. In Gwent, the application was used six times, which resulted in three games. The two were for security concerns, and one resulted in the arrest of a man who gave false details to civil servants.
The application described it correctly for theft, attack and car offense. Wales online. He was later accused and sentenced.
An important use of the application in South Wales led to the identification of a man who was requested by an arrest warrant for drug trafficking and attack to a police officer in Poland until 2012 in Cardiff.
The 38 -year -old man was detained to Westminster Magistrates’ Court.
Gwer Ben Gwer, who pioneered the face recognition attempt for South Wales and Gwent Police forces, said: “These examples allowed officers to quickly define individuals who refused to give details before taking appropriate actions depending on the conditions or given the wrong details.
“They contained individuals defined by the use of the application that has been in suspicious conditions and gave false details.”
When someone is called by the police for a crime, the vehicle provides rapid arrest and detention. False identity incidents are immediately cleaned immediately without the need for a trip to a police station or custody suite.
South Wales Police guarantees that the images taken using the application are not stored and how to use the application in special areas such as houses, schools, medical facilities and worship places. This is to establish a balance between the needs of policing and the privacy rights of individuals.
Inspector Gwer added: “Police officers were able to identify that they were always missing or thought they wanted to stop the street.
“This technology does not replace traditional tools to identify people and officers, but does not only use it in both necessary and proportional situations to keep a particular person or wider people safe.”
What is the face recognition initiated by the operator?
Southern Wales Police, OIFR’s face of a person’s face of a police problem on a mobile phone to define a photo of a person’s face to define a photograph of a police for the purpose of a predetermined image reference database, the face recognition technology (FRT) says the use of mobile phone use.
The website says: “Police officers may use the OIFR mobile application to confirm the identity of an unknown person who is unknown in the conditions where they cannot provide details, give details or provide false details.
“OIFR can be used in a person who is deceased or unconscious, allows officers to identify themselves, so that their families can be watched quickly.
“OIFR is an open medium.
“Independent tests of the national physical laboratory found that OIFR has achieved 100 percent accuracy and has always returned the right match as a result for people in the database.
“In the threshold settings we use, if the person is not in the database, it will not give results.”
