Discussing facial recognition cameras BBC Politics London.
Using fixed cameras is the logical next step in the roll-out of this technology, which will ensure even more wanted criminals get caught.
This technology will mean wanted criminals are unable to wander round town and city centres without getting caught. Over the past year the mobile vans have caught around 200 wanted criminals in Croydon including at least two rapists who would not otherwise have been caught.
Those few people opposing this technology need to explain why they don’t want those wanted criminals to be arrested. There are no legitimate privacy concerns given that the images of those people not on the wanted list are immediately and automatically deleted.
This technology has the potential to revolutionise crime fighting in the same way that fingerprints and DNA have in the past.
I would strongly support this initiative in Croydon and more widely as well.
