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Facial recognition puts crooks in the picture

Known 'faces' versus the databases...

By Pia Heikkila

Published: 31 January 2002 15:02 GMT

Essex police is trialing facial recognition software in the pursuit of crooks.

The police will be using images generated from CCTV footage, sketches and e-fits to match against a database of facial images to identify suspects.

The experiment will be using a facial biometrics system which automates the matching process with Essex police's 160,000 strong database.

Southend police station has already been using a video witness system for some time, which relies on recorded CCTV images compared with the database.

The technology will be provided by Securicor Information Systems (SIS) and Visionics.

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