The Policing Insight team recently researched and published their latest thematic report, Facing the future: the rise of facial recognition in policing, which aims to go behind the headlines and beyond the simplified facial recognition (FR) debate that we see in so much of the media today.
The report highlights the types of FR in use by policing and others around the world, and explores the big debates around that use.
As part of Policing Insight’s behind-the-scenes access to the Metropolitan Police’s first-ever live facial recognition (LFR) deployment in Ealing, James Sweetland interviewed two senior officers – Chief Superintendent Sean Wilson, Borough Commander for the Met’s West Area (which includes Ealing, Hillingdon and Hounslow), and Inspector Crystal Govers – about the operation.
Chapters
00:08 Benefits of live facial recognition (LFR) for Ealing and more broadly
01:58 The strategy going forward for the use of live facial recognition (LFR)
03:47 How live facial recognition (LFR) is perceived by the officers using it
06:05 The appetite for a wider rollout of live facial recognition (LFR) in policing
09:20 Responding to accusations that live facial recognition (LFR) is too intrusive
11:09 Issues of trust in the accuracy and proportionality of harm when using live facial recognition (LFR)
12:08 Addressing the concerns of ethnic communities about the use of live facial recognition (LFR)
14:06 The human in the loop of live facial recognition (LFR) decisions
15:50 Hopes and aspirations for this first deployment of live facial recognition (LFR) in Ealing
17:18 What the Ealing live facial recognition (LFR) deployment means for the community
Read more about the Policing Insight’s behind the scenes access in the Policing Insight subscriber report or in the Policing Insight subscriber article about the Metropolitan Police live facial recognition deployment in Ealing.
Find out more in the open access launch article.
