Google In a separate announcement concerning safeguards for police use of facial recognition, UK Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood stated, "Facial recognition technology has been the biggest breakthrough for catching criminals since DNA matching, already helping police take thousands of dangerous criminals off our streets".
Nigerians, Indians, Pakistanis and South Africans are among the national communities with migration links to Britain, although the facial recognition policy does not single out these nationalities.
Figures from the UK Office for National Statistics show that Indian, Pakistani and Nigerian nationals regularly rank among the five largest non-EU nationalities arriving in the country for long-term migration.
Under the Home Office's facial recognition policy, people can be considered for inclusion on enforcement watchlists because of their immigration or legal circumstances, rather than their nationality only.
This includes individuals subject to deportation orders, people wanted under relevant court warrants and those actively sought by immigration authorities after failing to comply with immigration conditions.