India starts the world's largest system of face recognition

At the end of October, 2019 the government of India announced plans to start the world's largest system of face recognition. According to the project, police of 29 states of the country and seven allied territories will have access to the uniform centralized database which will facilitate search of criminals and missing people.

Scales of the offered system are stated on 172 pages of the document published by National registration office of crimes. It is supposed that the system of face recognition will be able to compare the images received from the growing network of surveillance cameras with the database which will include photos of criminals, photos from passports and the images collected by different government institutions.

The government of India announced plans to start the world's largest system of face recognition

The platform will also allow to perform search on the basis of the photos loaded from newspapers, images, the sent citizens or identikits of the suspected criminals. According to the available documentation, a system will also distinguish persons on records from the closed video surveillance systems and to notify police at identification of people from the black list. Besides, police officers will equip with portable mobile devices which will allow to photograph the person of the interesting person and to instantly find it in the national database using a special application.

It is supposed that the new platform of face recognition can play very important role in search of criminals, missing persons and at identification of corpses. Besides, a system will help police officers "reveal criminal structures" and should lower a criminogenic background. The crime rate in India is rather high, especially in poor areas with the expanded city centers. In 2016 in the large Indian cities 709.1 offenses on 100,000 people whereas the average indicator over the country was 379.3, according to the latest official data were registered.^[1]

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