Met Police live facial recognition
London's Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) conducted a series of trials of live facial recognition technology across London between August 2016 and February 2019. Using NEC's NeoFace system, the tr ials took place at the Notting Hill Carnival, Remembrance Sunday, Stratford Westfield shopping centre and Romford. In April 2023, the Met Police announced it was to resume all forms of facial recognition on the basis of a study it and South Wales Police had commissioned the UK National Physical Laboratory to carry out.
- Organisation involved
- Metropolitan Police Service (MPS)
- Product, system or model
- NeoFace Watch
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