UK passport database to be used to identify suspects from CCTV footage

The facial images of more than 45 million people on Britain’s passport database will be used to identify suspects in criminal investigations, under new plans announced by the country’s crime and policing minister. Chris Philp, speaking at a sideline event during the Conservative Party conference in Manchester, said that while police already had the authority

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