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Essex,4 mins

Essex Police officers to use facial recognition

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The chief constable of Essex Police says that his police force is preparing to start routinely use live facial recognition technology to identify wanted individuals, whose images appear on a police database. It is understand the equipment could be introduced later this summer, following a pilot in Chelmsford and Southend which saw three arrests over two days. Picture credit: Stuart Woodward/ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½.

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