The police said yesterday that 50 cameras of the police forces’ citywide CCTV camera system will be equipped with facial recognition technology and that another 50 cameras will be equipped with the automatic number-plate recognition technology on a trial basis in the first quarter of next year.
João Augusto da Rosa, an assistant to the commissioner-general of the Unitary Police Service (SPU), made the remarks yesterday when attending a current affairs phone-in programme hosted by Ou Mun Tin Toi, the Chinese-language radio channel of government-owned broadcaster TDM.
Secretary for Security Wong Sio Chak first revealed in November last year – when addressing a plenary session of the legislature – that the government planned to introduce facial recognition and automatic number-plate recognition to the police forces’ citywide CCTV camera system in 2019, adding that the two recognition technologies would be first installed in 100 CCTV cameras each.
João Augusto da Rosa, an assistant to the commissioner-general of the Unitary Police Service (SPU), speaks during yesterday’s phone-in programme hosted by government-owned broadcaster TDM’s Chinese-language radio channel yesterday. Courtesy: TDM
