Live facial recognition technology will scan public areas across North Yorkshire in the coming months to identify wanted criminals and protect vulnerable people. Live facial recognition cameras will scan crowds across North Yorkshire in the coming months to identify wanted criminals and protect vulnerable people. Police chiefs confirmed the rollout of the technology, which compares live video footage against a bespoke watchlist of individuals. Chief Constable Tim Forber backed the rollout: "I am keen to get on with this. I think it's a really important technology. I do expect it to be used in North Yorkshire in in the coming months. And I think it is an important tool in terms of making sure that people who who are wanted, who do present a threat to the communities of North Yorkshire are identified as quickly and as simply as possible and we but we do that in a way that is transparent so the public can see it." The system will alert officers when a potential match passes a camera. Human operators will then review the footage before deciding whether to intervene. Detective Chief Constable Jez Bartley outlined how the system operates in practice: "So it it will take a a a snapshot of a subject's face and then match that to the watch list to see whether the algorithms meet and then that will then flag up to an operator in the van who will have that human eye and decision-making over whether they put that out to the engagement officers outside of the van, that are positioned to engage in man in a red top, please stop that person he's wanted for burglary, potentially. And then they will then do their due diligence as they would on the streets if they stopped someone they thought was wanted for