Two Live Facial Recognition vehicles have been successfully deployed by police for the first time in Redhill and Crawley.

At the deployment last Thursday, Surrey Police and Sussex Police received five positive alerts and a man was arrested in Redhill on suspicion of breaching his Sexual Risk Order.

The technology helps officers to find people on a pre-determined watchlist. Images of people who are not on the watchlist will have their face blurred and their images will be permanently deleted from the system. 

The Live Facial Recognition vans will be clearly signposted when deployed and locations will be publicised on the police website in advance.