Use of Live Facial Recognition by Kenya’s National Police Service

Use of Live Facial Recognition by Kenya’s National Police Service
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Deployment Status	Ongoing
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Events	* uses Record type Property:Has event Start (1 September 2019, Documented, , No description)
City	Mombasa, Nairobi
Country	Kenya
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Technology Deployed	NeoFace Watch
Information Certainty	Documented
Primary sources	1, 2
Datasets Used	Unknown Dataset 0049
Deployment Type	Surveillance
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managed by	NEC, National Police Service (Kenya)
used by	National Police Service (Kenya)
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Information Certainty: Documented

Deployment Purpose: Surveillance

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Product Deployed	NeoFace Watch
Institutions ⠉	NEC
Datasets	Unknown Dataset 0049
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Status and Events:

Status	Ongoing
Events	Start (1 September 2019, Documented, , No description)
Start Date
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Managed by	NEC National Police Service (Kenya)
Used by	National Police Service (Kenya)

Location:

City	Nairobi Mombasa
Country ⠉	Kenya Kenya

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Description

This deployments allows the Kenya's National Police Force to use thousands of cameras with live facial recognition, using the NeoFace Watch software by NEC.

Kenya’s National Police Service (NPS) has launched a facial recognition system for CCTV cameras installed along major roads and highways as part of an upgrade of its Integrated Command and Control System (ICCS), Kenyans.co.ke reports.

The ICCS CCTV network, which includes thousands of cameras, already has implemented license plate recognition technology. The facial recognition system will be monitored by the Directorate of Criminal Investigations as part of the Critical Incident Management Suite (CIMS), and will issue alerts to law enforcement when a suspect is identified, according to the report.

“The technology was installed in partnership with a Japanese electronics company and will help in fast and accurate identification of suspects,” said Inspector General of Police Joseph Kipchirchir Boinett in a statement. Boinett also said the system would be deployed in both Nairobi and Mombasa. 1

The facial recognition technology helps the crime busters to apprehend suspects by feeding photographs of the culprits into a video surveillance network which is powered by artificial intelligence. This system is connected to thousands of cameras in the cities which scan the street, instantly analyzing the faces of everyone on sight. 2

The NeoFace Watch software promises to deliver:

• High performance matching capability with multiple camera feeds
• Real-time alerts to be acted upon as necessary
• Ability to process live and archived video images
• [...]
• Faces of individuals are captured and extracted from the video feed and quality matched in real-time. NeoFace Watch software is able to process multiple camera feeds extracting and matching thousands of faces per minute.3

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