Five arrested after Live Facial Recognition deployment in south London

As part of our ongoing commitment to listen to our communities and tackle crime in their areas, we deployed our Live Facial Recognition (LFR) technology on the streets of Lewisham and Catford yesterday, Tuesday, 26 March.

There were five arrests during this operation - two for rape, one for breaching a Sexual Harm Prevention Order, one for breach of home detention curfew and one for drugs offences.

LFR is a precision technology that allows images of a person passing the deployment to be compared against a bespoke watchlist of people who the police wish to speak to. When a match is made an alert is generated. An officer will review the match and decide if they wish to speak to the individual.