Face recognition…

[Wapping]

The Met’s face recognition van was positioned in Oxford Street this morning, near enough outside Bond Street tube station, facing towards Oxford Street tube exit.

To my immense joy, the Met leapt into action just as I was approaching. Six or so large coppers, nicked a scrote. The bloke, I’d guess in his mid-20’s was foolish enough to decide that he didn’t want to assist the Met with their enquiries then and there and put up a fight. He hit the pavement with a very satisfying crack, whilst the Met’s finest piled in for ‘afters’.

He wasn’t quite so mouthy, after he’d been cuffed, face down, hauled up and led off.

Excellent free entertainment…. . though I do pay their wages.

 

[EVskiy]

Was he a prolific phone pinching type, or a pick-pocket? I guess it makes for same difference, crim nonetheless, whichever way you look at him.

 

[Wapping]

The odd thing is that he had a very distinctive haircut, which probably didn’t help his cause when it came to battling AI.

I’d suggest wearing a hoody next time.

 

[Robbi]

Assumed ethnicity ?

 

[Wapping]

It’s the second incident in a week. The last, a Northerner (judging by the Manchester accent *) who ‘forgot’ to pay for the bottles from Waitrose.

* I was and remain a big fan of Shameless.

The shoplifter had more than a passing resemblance to Frank Gallagher.

 

[Wapping]

Assumed ethnicity ?

Pasty white.

 

[EVskiy]

Was he a prolific phone pinching type, or a pick-pocket? I guess it makes for same difference, crim nonetheless, whichever way you look at him.

@Posh Pete why are you feeling so angry with my comment?

 

[er-minio]

To my immense joy, the Met leapt into action just as I was approaching. Six or so large coppers, nicked a scrote.

Was this because they matched his face with previous activity with the cameras?

(I'm not a big fan of the widespread face recognition thingie)

 

[siddo]

@Posh Pete why are you feeling so angry with my comment?

He's infected with the leftist mental illness. For him the crims are the victims of his public sector chums.

 

[Wapping]

Was this because they matched his face with previous activity with the cameras?

(I'm not a big fan of the widespread face recognition thingie)

Don’t know. Didn’t ask.

People will be when they trap the next extremist, child molester, conman preying on the old, women who can’t drive, yobs on stolen scooters stealing motorcycles, the other yob on a doctored ‘hot rod’ Chinese bicycle that smacks into a granddaughter on a zebra crossing, busting her legs, the fare dodgers and barrier jumpers and…. Not forgetting…. The next shoplifter. But, before then, it’s All Big Brother bro’



I guess the thing to consider is that, up to the moment of arrest and I guess afterwards, hundreds of pedestrians (including myself) were passing the plainly advertised van. Nobody was being harassed or inconvenienced; all going about their business. I guess most of them honestly.

 

[Wapping]

There has always been observation and picture matching.

Way before the internet, digital cameras and AI, my flatmate was a photographer with the Met, covering anything from tax dodgers (he was seconded to the Revenue in a joint operation), murder victims (heads in fridges, was a good one), floaters in the Thames, the Iran Embassy siege (granstand view) thro’ to (by chance) my work colleague who committed suicide.

The only difference was that the developed ‘old fashioned’ prints had to be matched manually and recorded on primitive files.

Nobody complained.

 

[Steptoe]

Don’t know. Didn’t ask.

People will be when they trap the next extremist, child molester, conman preying on the old, women who can’t drive, yobs on stolen scooters stealing motorcycles, the other yob on a doctored ‘hot rod’ Chinese bicycle that smacks into a granddaughter on a zebra crossing, busting her legs, the fare dodgers and barrier jumpers and…. Not forgetting…. The next shoplifter. But, before then, it’s All Big Brother bro’



I guess the thing to consider is that, up to the moment of arrest and I guess afterwards, hundreds of pedestrians (including myself) were passing the plainly advertised van. Nobody was being harassed or inconvenienced; all going about their business. I guess most of them honestly.

But we must protect the Uman rights of all scrotes and ner do wells, sod the rights of the very very vast majority of law abiding citizens ..

 

[Wapping]

Protecting ‘rights’ is an interesting one.

Lots of moaning about lawyers on these pages. The same bods (some of whom cannot understand the difference between a solicitor, a barrister, a civil advisor and, in extreme cases, a judge and a jury) will be running to one sharpish when they want to get divorced (or to protect them from the arrows of divorce), right up to the moment that they face (for good or bad) very serious charges. Suddenly that leach will be their best and possibly only advocate, let alone friend.

Bugger me, they even try to wriggle and loophole, when faced with a parking ticket Not that I necessarily blame them.

 

[ShakeyGS]

Did they do themselves any favours?

 

[Wapping]

Did they do themselves any favours?

They certainly seemed to be doing London, a considerable favour.

 

[Posh Pete]

@Posh Pete why are you feeling so angry with my comment?

I've no idea. I hadn't realised I'd expressed an opinion until you mentioned it, but clearly I've managed to do so! Apologies. Now removed.

It did however provide an opportunity for @siddo to vent his spleen and type a load of mindless bollox . Good old Ukgser!

 

[Tinytim]

There has always been observation and picture matching.

Way before the internet, digital cameras and AI.........

...quite so. Let's not forgot how effective the well executed Identikit system was in it's day . A prime example and something I still remember well was @Not The Bear's Identikit of the escaped giraffe from Doncaster zoo. It didn't take long for the giraffe to be recaptured whilst creeping down Frenchgate. The zoo authorities would have been fukked without his help.



(Can someone oblige us with the picture please...I've got it somewhere but it's in a massive folder titled "Shit" and it'll take me forever...thanks...
@Paul G (BHT) maybe )

 

[Not The Bear]

...quite so. Let's not forgot how effective the well executed Identikit system was in it's day . A prime example and something I still remember well was @Not The Bear's Identikit of the escaped giraffe from Doncaster zoo. It didn't take long for the giraffe to be recaptured whilst creeping down Frenchgate. The zoo authorities would have been fukked without his help.



(Can someone oblige us with the picture please...I've got it somewhere but it's in a massive folder titled "Shit" and it'll take me forever...thanks...
@Paul G (BHT) maybe )

Did someone mention giraffes?

 

[Not The Bear]

Excellent free entertainment…. . though I do pay their wages.

And we thank you for it. Some of your wages contributions have today been put to use getting a service of the gearbox on my awesome 7 Series, of which I am most grateful.

 

[Tinytim]

And we thank you for it. Some of your wages contributions have today been put to use getting a service of the gearbox on my awesome 7 Series, of which I am most grateful.

Oh dear, don't tell us you were sold a pup? ( and I don't mean a little Lab)