Telangana: For the first time in India

Hyderabad, Aug 02: In a significant development, The Telangana Police is now equipped with yet another powerful tool 'Facial Recognition System' integrated with TSCOP, which will aid the investigation officers in the prevention of crime and identification of suspects across the State in real time at lightning speed.

"Telangana is the first state in the country to leverage the power of Facial Recognition Technologies in prevention and detection of crimes in real time at lightning speed by making it available to all Investigation officers delivering citizen services at the cutting edge level, through integration with TSCOP App", Director General of Police M Mahender Reddy told media here on Thursday.

He said that this tool allows all the Investigation Officers to identify potential offenders by comparing person's face (Live) with lakhs of digital photographs that are stored in CCTNS central database including offenders, wanted persons, missing persons and also photographs of arrested offenders published in the Media.

Mr. Reddy said that the central database of photographs would be updated regularly through CCTNS implemented in all the Police Stations across the State.

" When the Person's Face (Live) or a photograph is fed into the system, then the Face or photograph will be compared with the aforesaid central database containing lakhs of photographs, the matches of photographs will be ranked in descending order in a few seconds.

The Investigation Officers then carry out a manual comparison of matched photographs and proceed for further confirmation using other information and appropriate action will be initiated thereafter.

The photographs of persons that do not match with the central database will automatically be discarded immediately and shall not be stored anywhere in the system", he said.