Here’s the moment a man wanted for firearms offences was arrested during the latest deployment of Live Facial Recognition (LFR) in Luton.
Specialist officers from the force’s dedicated LFR team deployed the Home Office funded vans in Luton Town Centre on Saturday (8 November).
The innovative technology, which works by comparing police images from a pre-determined watchlist with a live camera feed, alerted officers to the match of an individual who was outstanding for firearms offences.
Following an alert, officers will engage with the individual, making further enquiries to confirm their identity and ensure a true match. Upon approach, the suspect, a man in his 20s, made off from officers leading to a foot chase.
He was arrested a short while later.
LFR has been put into action eight times since its introduction at the end of the summer and has already seen a total of 30 alerts being responded to, with a total of 14 people being arrested and processed for outstanding warrants or incidents as a result of these.
The LFR will be back in Luton town centre on November 21.
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