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Door staff equipped with body-worn facial recognition cameras identify offenders in city centre trial

SUBSCRIBE 1st March 2024James Sweetland, Policing Insight
A three-month facial recognition trial in Southampton has seen door staff equipped with body-worn cameras to check pub and club goers against a database of excluded offenders; the success of the scheme – described as the first of its kind in the country – has led to suggestions that it could be extended to other areas, as well as to other situations such as preventing those with football banning orders from attending matches, as Policing Insight’s James Sweetland reports.

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