WA cops start public facial recognition records, smile for the forever camera

From Western Australia Police

Western Australia will become the first place in the country where police will trial real-time facial recognition cameras, scanning crowds for people wanted by police.

We are committed to being open and transparent about how LFR technology is developed, deployed, and used. Maintaining the trust of our communities is essential as we introduce this new and important tool to support public safety.

Live Facial Recognition (LFR) uses cameras to detect faces in real time.

When someone walks into the camera’s view, in a defined area, the system detects their face, creates a biometric template based on their features and checks this against a list of people police are looking for.

If the system thinks someone might match a person on the list, it generates an alert.

Police officers then review the alert and decide, based on the alert, their observations and any other relevant information, whether to speak with the person or take any further action.

1. A marked police van with clear signage and LFR technology will be deployed to a location.
2. The system will scan faces in real time and compare them against a predetermined alert list.
3. When a match is generated, officers will assess the alert and engage the individual to verify the alert before taking appropriate action.
4. When there is no match, no data is stored by Police, the data is deleted automatically and immediately.

When we use Live Facial Recognition technology, we recognise there is an ongoing need to balance privacy and protection concerns, in addition to considering its legal and ethical implications.

Planned deployments

Results from each deployment will be uploaded when available.

This mob really have been isolated from normality for far too long. Will Western Australians actually cop this? They are so dumbed-down with internet, Covid shots and fluoride they will fall for anything from the Marxist Labor government. They will think nothing of it until they lose their social credit standing then they might do something about it when their money supply is turned off.

Cairns News has published numerous reports over the years of how inaccurate this technology actually is and the US and other countries dropped facial recognition for crime fighting because it is too unreliable.

Last year NSW police dropped facial recognition technology because it produced too many false positives. The WA Labor coppers probably haven’t heard about this yet.

https://cairnsnews.org/2025/05/19/nsw-police-end-use-of-facial-recognition-to-solve-crime/