00:00The deployment of live facial recognition in Huddersfield to locate wanted people follows a recent district-wide operation in which
00:0860 on-the-run offenders were located and locked up. In this recent operation, arrests were made for offences including
00:14domestic stalking and shoplifting.
00:16It's going to spot criminals and other wanted people or missing people that we can't detect ourselves, that we don't
00:24know about, maybe outside of our area or district or from other areas, and it's a good tool to recognise
00:31them. In terms of other benefits, obviously it's protecting vulnerable people and detecting suspects and criminals operating there.
00:38Our priorities this summer, the first one is to focus on knife crime. We've got the Knife Crime Concentration Fund,
00:45which is out in our police office on the streets of Huddersfield, and that's specifically to prevent and deterred crime,
00:53which has enabled fire weapons and knives.
00:57Elsewhere, obviously we've got retail crime, public orders, and violence crime, that links obviously to the night-time economy as
01:05well. Obviously that runs on a weekend, we've got bank holidays.
01:08We've got a number of bank holiday weekend this month, and there's going to be extra police officers in the
01:14town centre for that.
01:15We're going to dare everyone to report everything that we can. If we don't get the reports, then as far
01:20as we're concerned, the crime isn't happening.
01:23If we build that picture of crime happening in our area, then the resources and the funding will come and
01:28it will address that problem.
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