00:00This is my social inspector of Devon and Cornwall Police.
00:02We're down in Newquay today supporting the Boardmasters Festival and the policing of it
00:07with a new technology to Devon and Cornwall which is Live Facial Recognition.
00:11So Live Facial Recognition has been in policing for nearly 10 years and it's new to Devon and
00:15Cornwall. What we're hoping to achieve is making it as safe an event as possible,
00:21to make Newquay as safe as possible and the way we're doing that is by using this technology.
00:26How it works is it has cameras on the roof that you'll see, those cameras scan the faces
00:31of people that pass by and in real time they compare those faces to a watch list of people
00:37of interest to the police, so people that might be wanted for offences or otherwise are interested.
00:41If there's a match it alerts the police officer who will go and engage with that person and if
00:45there's no match then it immediately deletes that image it's just taken of the member public
00:48and at the end of deployment we keep no record of that image. Essentially it's taking an old
00:55policing principle which is officers looking out for people that are of interest or people that are
00:59wanted and it turbo charges that with technology because technology can remember many more faces
01:04than a police officer can and it can recognise them much more accurately. This is our first deployment
01:09in Devon and Cornwall and the reason we've chosen Newquay and the reason we've chosen this location
01:14is partly because there's a large increase in population coming to Newquay over this weekend
01:18and with that does come a little rise in crime and disorder and obviously we want people coming to Newquay
01:23to
01:23be safe, we want the communities to feel safe when they come here, we want them to enjoy the sun,
01:27the sea,
01:28the sand and so this technology helps us do that by identifying those people and essentially
01:35arresting them, dispersing them, dealing with them before they can cause any harm in the community.
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