OPINION - The Standard View: Keeping London's streets safe without eroding rights is a necessary balancing act
Facial recognition technology is already changing the nature of policing in the capital. To that end, the Met has been granted an additional £500,000 to fund further live facial recognition operations against knife and other offences, as part of a £4 million Home Office investment that will also finance the development of “new technologies which can detect knives carried from a distance and hand-held or body-worn systems which can be operated by individual officers”.