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The Met Police said the cameras would be used on the approach to and exit from Carnival
Live facial recognition (LFR) technology will deployed during the Notting Hill Carnival, the Metropolitan Police has said.
The force said the cameras would be used on the approach to and exit from Carnival, "outside the boundaries of the event" itself, to help officers "identify and intercept" people who pose a public safety risk.
The Met added that it would be carrying out "pre-emptive intelligence-led arrests and searches" of people believed to be in possession of weapons or supplying drugs, as it set out its policing plan for the August Bank Holiday event.
Big Brother Watch interim director Rebecca Vincent called for LFR plans to be scrapped, adding that the technology was "less accurate in scanning minority faces".
