Met Police set to increase use of facial recognition technology amid force restructure
Britain’s biggest police force will double the use of live face recognition.
The movement of the metropolitan police comes because it has been restructured to meet the loss of 1,400 officers and 300 personnel due to budget shortage and will see 10 distribution of technology once a week.
As part of the latest details of its restructuring, Met has announced that live face recognition will now be used four times a week for five days, four times a week for five days.
At the beginning of this month, MET announced that 773 had made 1,000 arrests using live face recognition that led to accusation or care.
Part of the revision will see that MET has encountered increasing demand in the last two years in connection with the protest against the protests.
The squad will receive 63 officers from 48, especially due to the increase in the number of protests about Israel and Palestine and environmental problems.
Sir Mark Rowley, the chief of force, said: “In the last few years, the number of protests has increased.
“We have no power to reduce the number of protests and cancel them.
“The laws allow a lot and encourage completely understandable protests, and I do not object to it, but unfortunately what we see is some of those who created crime and crime.”
However, face recognition plans were examined.
Liberty Politics and Campaign Officer Charlie Whelton said: “At a time when there is a complete lack of arrangement regulating its use, it is incredibly related to the expansion of face recognition.
“Any technology that has the potential to violate our rights in the way of scanning and defining millions of people must take solid measures around its use, including the existence of appropriate independent surveillance.
“The government must now legislated to regulate this technology, to protect people’s rights and to ensure that the law of face recognition is not behind with use.”
Sir Mark insisted that technology was used responsible.
“We only use it to look for serious criminals such as the sought -after criminals and registered sex criminals.
“Many of them routinely put serious crimes against women or children or people sought for armed robbery.
“This is a wonderful piece of technology. It is used in a very responsible way, and that’s why most people support him.”
Officers also move to the neighborhood teams to cope with street crimes, including telephone theft, anti-social behavior and theft, and 80 were moved to the team covering the western end, 50 percent increase.
Last month, retailers warned that high flagship high streets, such as Oxford Street in West End, were at risk without an emergency national action on crime.
The shopping production reached a record level with the number of crimes exceeding 500,000 for the first time in 2024, while a group representing 5,000 enterprises called for a broader action to deal with all kinds of crimes affecting high streets.
“West End produces £ 50 billion for the UK economy, S said Sir Mark.
“This is an enormous deying generator. Police and it is important to protect it well.
“And we think there is more we can do on our own and work with them.”
This, patrolling the streets, “pickpickers” and the shops who rob the shops will include officers said.
Another 90 officers are moving to neighborhood teams covering six hot points for robbery and theft – Brixton, Kingston, Ealing, Finsbury Park, Southwark and Spitalfields.
Met is 33.201 officers, 11,319 personnel, 1,460 police community support officer and 1,127 special.
In April, Sir Mark warned that the force was faced with a budget deficit of £ 260 million and as a result he removed the royal parks and private school officers.
