NEW REPORT! Facing the future: the rise of facial recognition in policing. Some of the international stakeholder voices featured in this major report (see image): •Tony Eastaugh, Biometrics and Surveillance Camera Commissioner Biometrics and Surveillance Camera Commissioner •Lindsey Chiswick, Director of

NEW REPORT! Facing the future: the rise of facial recognition in policing This report 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

National Police Chiefs’ Council Chair, Chief Constable Gavin Stephens, believes facial recognition (FR) has the potential to be a game-changer for crime fighting; in this article – which appears as the foreword to Policing Insight’s latest thematic report, Facing the future: the

Former Scottish Lord Advocate Lady Elish Angiolini KC is chair of the eponymous inquiry into the rape and murder of Sarah Everard by serving Met Police officer Wayne Couzens; in this exclusive interview with Policing Insight she talks to James Sweetland about the inquiry’s review

NEW REPORT! Facing the future: the rise of facial recognition in policing. More of the international stakeholder voices featured in this major report (see image): · Baroness Hamwee, Chair of Lords Justice and Home Affairs Committee Lords Committee on Justice and Home Affairs · Professor Paul Taylor,

In his first interview in the role, Chair of the City of London Police Authority Board Tijs Broeke spoke about his goals for the force, how a shocking homophobic attack encouraged him to get involved in policing as a special constable, and why politicians focusing on wokeness in

There are other views & detail that the new government will need to consider before LFR becomes 'BAU' eg. Effective for crime reduction? Consequences of error? Comparison against other methods? Type of serious crime justifying deployment? Intrusion assessment? Equalities impact?

V interesting. But we need to talk about DETAILS. What are the industrial setting incl. specificity/sensitivity? What is the inductive basis for the software? Which company developed this particular product? (no such thing as THE technology) What about the chilling effect?

An interesting piece from James Sweetland on a recent Metropolitan Police live facial recognition deployment in #Ealing. I'm still sceptical given the opportunity cost: more than a dozen police officers deployed (plus other costs) and not a single arrest. policinginsight.com/feature/facial…

“She's lost all her mates and pissed off the gays” 🤣 Interestingly I spoke to Policing Insight recently criticising discourse of ‘wokeness’ in police under Ms Braverman always talking about going ‘back to basics’ but she wasn’t really. It was wasting time & politicising policing

Me for The Constitution Society on the role of Chief Scientific Advisers + how Gov could make more use of them 👌🏻 Hat tip to John Aston + my co-written paper for Reform ✅

Metropolitan Police live facial recognition (LFR) deployment: The strategy going forward for the use of LFR Policing Insight's James Sweetland was invited to the first deployment by the Metropolitan Police of live facial recognition (LFR) in Ealing, London. In another clip from

Metropolitan Police live facial recognition (LFR) deployment: How LFR is perceived by the officers using it. Policing Insight's James Sweetland was invited to the first deployment by the Metropolitan Police of live facial recognition (LFR) in Ealing, London. In another clip

Good to see the report below out from College of Policing on scrutiny panels + independent advisory groups 👇 library.college.police.uk/docs/CoP/Indep…? Was involved in a bit of work supporting it back in my APCC days

The UK’s first #counterterrorism (CT) graduate scheme officially launched earlier this year, with new officers set to enter CT roles with the Met Police within just two years; in the first of a two-part series, Policing Insight’s James Sweetland spoke with Commander Dominic

The first Police Now counter-terrorism (CT) graduate scheme officially launched earlier this year, with new officers set to enter CT roles within the Metropolitan Police just two years; in the second of a two-part series, Policing Insight’s James Sweetland spoke with trainees on

Faced with austerity cuts, the Metropolitan Police opted for a programme of station closures rather than reducing officer numbers; recent research from the Institute for Fiscal Studies suggest the approach has led to more violent crime and lower rates of solved cases and crime

Former Metropolitan Police Assistant Commissioner and National Police Chief’s Council Lead for Counter-Terrorism Policing Neil Basu QPM is one of the country’s most outspoken former senior cops; in the first of a three-part interview series with Policing Insight’s James

📢Neil Basu interview part 2: Former Met Assistant Commissioner and NPCC Lead for CT Policing Neil Basu QPM is one of the country’s most outspoken former senior cops; in the second part of an extended interview series with Policing Insight’s James Sweetland, he gave his