Ipswich Star

yes uh thanks mike uh it seems the rollout of live facial recognition software by police forces all over the country is absolutely unstoppable first of all we go to blackpool the illuminations as you can see from the picture there i didn't realize the illuminations these days includes a huge festival size stage and for the first time lancashire police are planning on using facial recognition at the famous blackpool illuminations which go up in a few days time a way of extending the holiday season up there on the filed coast next we go to suffolk and ipswich where two people were arrested as a result of Facial recognition being rolled out in the town centre there.

27,500 faces were scanned, leading to just the two arrests, according to Suffolk Constabulary, reported there by the Ipswich Star.

A few miles further north, up in Bury St Edmunds, and the police had less success.

No arrests at all made following facial recognition exercise in Bury St Edmunds City Centre.