Facial recognition will ‘transform investigative work,’ says UK’s top cop

United Kingdom’s most senior police officer believes that facial recognition will transform investigative work the same way DNA testing did 30 years ago.

The London Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley hailed the technology while speaking at an event marking his first year in office, The Guardian reports.

“We’ve also shown recently that live facial recognition is massively effective at picking out wanted offenders from crowds of people,” says Rowley. “The next step is more exciting: retroactively using facial …

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