What is Live Facial Recognition?
With live facial recognition in policing you can identify wanted or vulnerable individuals in real-time. By connecting our facial recognition software to a camera, you can identify vulnerable individuals as quickly as possible to give them the help they need, and arrest wanted individuals before they commit further crimes.
Here are some examples of where live facial recognition would be beneficial:
- Missing or vulnerable individuals
- Border Security and Contactless Travel
- Wanted Individuals
- Custody Suite
Key Features
NEC Live Facial Recognition delivers accurate, real-time identification capabilities that help organisations respond quickly to potential threats, locate vulnerable individuals, and improve operational decision-making. Designed to integrate seamlessly into live environments, the solution provides rapid alerts, enhanced situational awareness, and reliable matching performance. By enabling teams to identify individuals of interest quickly and efficiently, Live Facial Recognition supports improved public safety, more effective resource deployment, and greater operational confidence.
Live Facial Recognition provides a fast and effective way to locate missing or vulnerable individuals, helping officers identify those at risk and ensure they receive support as quickly as possible. By generating real-time alerts, the technology can significantly reduce the time taken to find individuals, improving safeguarding outcomes and reducing the potential for harm.
Compared to traditional search methods, Live Facial Recognition enables forces to use resources more efficiently, reducing the need to deploy multiple search teams across different locations. This allows officers to focus their efforts where they can have the greatest impact while delivering a cost-effective approach to protecting vulnerable members of the public.
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Supporting Your Force
Solving Crime and Closing Case
Live Facial Recognition helps officers identify wanted individuals in real time, enabling proactive intervention before further offences can occur. By providing rapid and accurate identification capabilities, forces can accelerate investigations, support evidence gathering, and improve case resolution rates. This helps teams act on critical intelligence faster while enhancing overall operational effectiveness.
Great Return on Investment
By automating the identification process and reducing the need for resource-intensive manual searches, Live Facial Recognition delivers significant operational efficiencies. Forces can achieve more with existing resources, reduce investigative costs, and maximise the value of technology investments while improving service delivery and public safety outcomes.
Protecting the Public
Live Facial Recognition supports the rapid identification of wanted suspects, missing persons, and vulnerable individuals, helping officers take action when it matters most. By enabling faster interventions and improving situational awareness, the technology helps reduce risk, enhance safeguarding efforts, and contribute to safer communities.
Focus Resources Effectively
Rather than deploying officers across multiple locations in the hope of locating a person of interest, Live Facial Recognition helps direct resources to where they are needed most. Real-time alerts enable forces to prioritise operational activity, improve decision-making, and ensure frontline teams can respond quickly and efficiently to genuine threats and opportunities.
Use Cases
High performing facial recognition software supporting self-exclusion for the gambling sector.
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Discover how NEC Live Facial Recognition can help your organisation identify wanted individuals, locate vulnerable people faster, and improve operational decision-making in real time. Designed to support policing, public safety, custody, and border security operations, the solution delivers rapid identification capabilities while helping teams make more effective use of their resources.
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Frequently Asked Questions
NEC’s Live Facial Recognition uses real-time video feeds to scan and match faces against a police database. If a match is found, officers receive an instant alert, allowing for quick identification of persons of interest while reducing unnecessary interventions.