British Police to Adopt Facial Recognition

British Police have announced plans to expand its use facial recognition technology to rest of the country and will be overseen by a new body. The technology is already used by London's Metropolitan Police, which has made 1,300 arrests using facial recognition in the last two years, including rapists, domestic abusers and violent criminals, and found more than 100 sex offenders who had breached their licence conditions. Civil liberties group Big Brother Watch, have the planned use of facial recognition calling the planned expansion of a grave threat to privacy. Crime and Policing Minister Sarah Jones said, "It has already helped take thousands of dangerous criminals off our streets and has huge potential to strengthen how the police keep us safe," she said. "We will expand its use so that forces can put more criminals behind bars and tackle crime in their communities."