Thursday 23 May 2013

Watching Your Face

20 May, 2013

Facewatch chosen as standard equipment in winning Police car

"Vauxhall cars wins ACPO future technology challenge.

A crime-busting Vauxhall Astra Sports Tourer, installed with Facewatch and other leading edge technology, has won a challenge from the Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO) to find a way of incorporating future technology into a Police car.

The British-built Astra Sports Tourer featuring three computers is armed with Facewatch, forensics and facial-recognition software plus several high-quality cameras able to record activity around the vehicle. This CCTV footage can be streamed on-the-move and uploaded to Facewatch, the online crime database. Facewatch also provides instant feeds of crimes reported through the system as they happen, including moving CCTV footage and images of suspects.

This special Astra Sports Tourer is the Police car for the iPhone generation with witness of crime photography collected via 3G connectivity. The vehicle is also equipped with software that predicts future crime hotspots."

http://www.bapcojournal.com/news/fullstory.php/aid/2325/Facewatch_chosen_as_standard_equipment_in_winning_Police_car_.html

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