{"id":215013,"date":"2023-10-03T08:56:00","date_gmt":"2023-10-03T08:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bestwnews.com\/?p=215013"},"modified":"2023-10-03T08:56:00","modified_gmt":"2023-10-03T08:56:00","slug":"passports-will-be-used-to-catch-shoplifters-with-criminals-caught-on-cctv-to-be-compared-with-database-of-45m-people-the-sun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bestwnews.com\/world-news\/passports-will-be-used-to-catch-shoplifters-with-criminals-caught-on-cctv-to-be-compared-with-database-of-45m-people-the-sun\/","title":{"rendered":"Passports 'will be used to catch shoplifters' – with criminals caught on CCTV to be compared with database of 45m people | The Sun"},"content":{"rendered":"

PASSPORTS will be used to snare shoplifters caught on CCTV – by comparing their mugs to 45 million others on the database.<\/p>\n

Faces of burglars, car and bike thieves from Ring doorbells and dashcams will also be set against other government systems.<\/p>\n


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Foreign crooks not on Britain's passport database will be busted on the immigration and asylum biometrics system.<\/p>\n

The move will be made possible by a full integration of police, passport and national databases – which are currently all separate.<\/p>\n

Announcing the move, crime and policing minister Chris Philp said cops will be able to match a crook to a face with the "click of one button".<\/p>\n

He is hoping to have the system up and running within two years.<\/p>\n

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Mr Philp said: \u201cI\u2019m going to be asking police forces to search all of those databases \u2014 the police national database, which has custody images.<\/p>\n

"But also other databases like the passport database \u2014 not just for shoplifting but for crime generally to get those matches.<\/p>\n

"Because the technology is now so good that you can get a blurred image and get a match for it."<\/p>\n

Facing down fears the move is a step towards Chinese-style mass surveillance, Mr Philp told the Tory party conference in Manchester personal information will not be compromised.<\/p>\n

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He said it would be legal to use passport holders\u2019 details even if they have never been arrested, as the footage will be used as part of a criminal investigation.<\/p>\n

But Silkie Carlo, director of civil liberties group Big Brother Watch, blasted the "Orwellian" plans a "gross violation of British privacy principles".<\/p>\n

There were 2.7 million theft offences in the year ending March 2023, according to the Office for National Statistics<\/p>\n

One in 30 car thefts to to a charge while four in every five reports closed without a suspect being identified last year.<\/p>\n

There were a massive 342,343 cases of shoplifting recorded by the police in the UK between 2022-2023.<\/p>\n

This was up from 275,076 the previous year, according security training firm Get Licensed.<\/p>\n

The shoplifting scourge has become an epidemic across the country, with crooks targeting everywhere from corner shops to garden centres.<\/p>\n

Experts say the spike in pilfering is being driven by the cost-of-living crisis, a lack of security staff and organised crime groups.<\/p>\n

But shops have hit back, bringing in measures from cardboard cutouts of expensive items like champagne and putting protein bars in plastic boxes.<\/p>\n


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