Edmonton Police Launch Pilot of Body Cameras Equipped With AI-Powered Facial Recognition

Edmonton Police Launch Pilot of Body Cameras Equipped With AI-Powered Facial Recognition
An Axon body camera is worn by an officer at Oklahoma City police headquarters on May 31, 2024 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. AP Photo/Nick Oxford
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The Edmonton Police Service is testing new body-worn camera technology powered by machine learning, aiming to help officers in the field identify “dangerous” individuals and those with outstanding arrest warrants for serious crimes.

To do that, the police service said the mug shots of nearly 7,000 individuals have been compiled into a database for officers to assess the real-time effectiveness of the facial recognition body-worn cameras provided by public safety technology company Axon Enterprise Inc.