{"id":1189829,"date":"2026-09-06T15:19:15","date_gmt":"2026-09-06T15:19:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1189829\/"},"modified":"2026-09-06T15:19:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-06T15:19:15","slug":"facial-recognition-cameras-lead-to-82-arrests-in-west-yorkshire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1189829\/","title":{"rendered":"Facial recognition cameras lead to 82 arrests in West Yorkshire"},"content":{"rendered":"

Facial recognition cameras have been used to arrest more than 80 people in West Yorkshire since November 2025, police have said.<\/b><\/p>\n

Live facial recognition (LFR) technology works by comparing faces captured on a live camera feed against an authorised watchlist.<\/p>\n

West Yorkshire Police, which deployed the cameras in Wakefield city centre last week, said since their introduction the LFR vans had led to the arrest of 82 suspects.<\/p>\n

Ch Supt Stuart Bainbridge, district commander of Wakefield Police, said the cameras were “an incredibly useful tool” for “keeping communities safe”. <\/p>\n

The technology has been criticised by some privacy campaigners, but recent a challenge against the Metropolitan Police’s<\/a> use of it was dismissed at the High Court in April.<\/p>\n

Bainbridge said the cameras “are there to pick out persons already logged on police systems as wanted by the courts, wanted for arrest or as posing a risk to the public”.<\/p>\n

Images captured of ordinary members of the public are deleted almost instantly, he added.<\/p>\n

The cameras have also helped officers find missing and vulnerable people during their 10 months of operation, according to the force. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Facial recognition cameras have been used to arrest more than 80 people in West Yorkshire since November 2025,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1189830,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[8814],"tags":[748,393,4884,1860,16,15],"class_list":["post-1189829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-leeds","tag-britain","tag-england","tag-great-britain","tag-leeds","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/117224771601034835","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1189829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1189829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1189829\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1189830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1189829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1189829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1189829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}