{"id":22449,"date":"2025-11-26T14:45:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T14:45:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/satellite.mmu.ac.uk\/northernquota-old\/?p=22449"},"modified":"2025-11-26T14:55:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T14:55:11","slug":"seven-arrests-in-piccadilly-with-live-facial-recognition-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/satellite.mmu.ac.uk\/northernquota-old\/seven-arrests-in-piccadilly-with-live-facial-recognition-technology\/","title":{"rendered":"Seven arrests in Piccadilly with live facial recognition technology"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Seven&nbsp;<span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif\">men have been arrested with the use of live facial recognition technology in the city centre, with four men being charged.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif\">The use of the technology is part of a wider tactic used by the police named Operation Avro. Already, there have been 63 arrests with this operation. Six of the arrests have been from <span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif\">facial recognition<\/span> technology.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif\">Within the first five minutes of deployment, LFR identified a wanted suspect, leading to an arrest.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;background-image: none;background-position: 0% 0%;background-size: auto;background-repeat: repeat;background-attachment: scroll\">Inspector Jon Middleton said:<\/span>&nbsp;\u201cThe technology is about keeping people safe as well as identifying people wanted for criminal offences and locating vulnerable people.<span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;background-image: none;background-position: 0% 0%;background-size: auto;background-repeat: repeat;background-attachment: scroll\"> This proactive approach allows officers to intervene before suspects can commit further offences, reducing the risk to the public.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif\">Operation Avro is a monthly crackdown on crime in the city centre, around Piccadilly Gardens and Market Street.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif\">The facial technology officers goes to a different district each month. The technology had been tested previously by the Met and South Wales Police.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif\">The test is aimed to give an impartial, science focused and evidence-based analysis of the facial recognition algorithm.  The facial recognition camera compares scanned faces to a pre-established database in real-time. If a match is made police will be alerted.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif\"> The technology is being used in two vans which have been positioned in Piccadilly Gardens and on Market Street.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:400\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif\">Three men have been charged after appearing in court, one man in his 30s for entering Piccadilly Gardens for breaching a conditional behaviour order.  Another man in his 30s was arrested on suspicion of shoplifting.\u00a0A man in his 40s had breached a court order in 2020 and had been wanted ever since. 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