Britain’s passport database could be used to catch shoplifters, burglars and other criminals under urgent plans to curb crime, the policing minister has said.

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Passport photograph database 'to be used by police to arrest shoplifters'

Policing minister Chris Philp said he wants to created a shared database which will allow police to compare facial images from passports with CCTV, dashcam and doorbell footage

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UK’s passport database of 45 million people could be used to help catch criminals

PASSPORTS will be used to snare shoplifters caught on CCTV – by comparing their mugs to 45 million others on the database. Faces of burglars, car and bike thieves from Ring doorbells and dashcams will also be set against other government systems. AlamyThe move will be made possible by a full integration of police, passport and national databases – which are currently all separate[/caption]
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Passports ‘will be used to catch shoplifters’ – with criminals caught on CCTV to be compared with database of 45m people

Criminals to be cross-referenced against national databases as part of new zero-tolerance approach, says Chris Philp at Tory conference

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Police to check all thieves caught on CCTV against passport database

Chris Philp, the crime and policing minister wants to make the images available so criminals can be identified 'with one click'

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Including passport pictures in the database poses a clear threat to privacy. But even aside from these concerns, the measures fail to address the root causes of the rise in shop theft and risk increasing the workload for officers.

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Passports could be used to catch shoplifters in CCTV footage

Britain’s passport database of 45 million people will be used to help catch shoplifters, burglars and car and bike thieves under plans to tackle crime. Video of

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Passport database ‘will be used to catch shoplifters and burglars’

Thieves caught on CCTV will be cross-referenced against official databases as part of a new crackdown on crime, the policing minister has said.

Police to use 'game-changing' facial recognition tech to check thieves against passport databases

An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: Britain's passport database could be used to catch shoplifters, burglars and other criminals under urgent plans to curb crime, the policing minister has said. Chris Philp said he planned to integrate data from the police national database (PND),...

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UK Passport Images Database Could Be Used To Catch Shoplifters

Civil liberty campaigners warn Chris Philp’s plans to integrate databases are an ‘Orwellian nightmare’Britain’s passport database could be used to catch shoplifters, burglars and other criminals under urgent plans to curb crime, the policing minister has said.Chris Philp said he planned to integrate data from the police national database (PND), the Passport Office and other national databases to help police find a match with the “click of one bu…

UK Passport Images Database Could Be Used To Catch Shoplifters

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