Protecting Communities with Facial Intelligence
Police forces across the United Kingdom are under unprecedented pressure. Budgets are shrinking while demands keep growing. Chief Constables and Police & Crime Commissioners are expected to deliver safer streets, faster investigations, and stronger community trust, all while operating with fewer resources. The reality is simple: forces must find new ways to do more with less.
This is where Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Facial Intelligence can make a tangible difference. By turning ordinary video footage into actionable intelligence, agencies can save thousands of officer hours, cut costs, and focus on their ultimate mission: protecting people from harm.
Time Is the Most Precious Resource
One of the greatest challenges police face today is managing overwhelming volumes of video evidence. CCTV, bodycams, drones, and dashcams capture millions of hours of footage, far too much for human teams to review effectively. Vital evidence is often buried in this flood of data, or even missed, slowing down investigations and sometimes preventing justice altogether.
Corsight’s Facial Intelligence technology changes this equation. By accurately detecting persons of interest across hundreds of feeds simultaneously, forces can identify suspects in real time and accelerate post-event investigations. In Essex Police, for example, the technology helped deliver over 100 arrests from 1.4 million scans with almost no false alarms, freeing officers to get back on the streets.
This kind of efficiency is not just about convenience. It directly reduces overtime costs and gets officers back to frontline policing, visible in the community where they’re most needed.
A Smarter Way to Handle Public Requests
Another growing drain on police resources is the surge in Subject Access Requests (SARs). Members of the public now frequently request copies of video footage in which they appear. Each case takes hours to process, and the backlog gis enormous.
Here too, Facial Intelligence offers relief. By ingesting an image of the requesting individual, Corsight’s platform can instantly locate all relevant footage, automatically redact bystanders, and return the result for quick verification. What once consumed days of manual review can be handled in minutes, saving thousands of hours across a force.
Tackling Bias Without Missing Criminals
Bias in facial recognition has been a source of public concern and operational frustration. Many forces have tried to minimize false positives by raising their system’s thresholds, sometimes to the point of missing known criminals walking right past their cameras.
In one UK force, recognition accuracy was so low that 64% of matches were incorrect before adjusting thresholds. After raising the bar, false positives disappeared, but so did many detections of actual suspects. This trade-off undermines confidence in the technology.
Corsight offers a better path. Independently tested by Cambridge University and the National Physical Laboratory, and ranked by NIST as the least racially biased system in the world, Corsight’s Facial Intelligence delivers both accuracy and fairness. This enables police to operate at lower thresholds without fear of bias, ensuring criminals are identified while protecting innocent members of the public.
Why Persist with Old Technology?
The question must be asked: if forces know that legacy technology is inaccurate, biased, and inefficient, why persist with it? Is it simply because the upfront cost looks lower? The real cost is far greater, missed detections, wasted hours, frustrated officers, and reduced community safety.
Investing in proven, modern AI technology is not about spending more; it’s about spending smarter. By reducing overtime, clearing backlogs, and accelerating justice, Facial Intelligence pays for itself many times over.
A Force Multiplier for Modern Policing
At its core, policing is about protecting people. But officers cannot be everywhere at once, and resources are finite. By harnessing AI-powered Facial Intelligence, forces can amplify their impact, identifying threats faster, solving cases sooner, and safeguarding communities more effectively.
Corsight’s technology is already trusted by police forces across the UK, Europe, and the US. It works in the toughest conditions, poor video quality, distance, extreme weather, even drone footage or coastal monitoring to stop illegal immigrants arriving by boat, and integrates with existing CCTV and evidence systems.
As crime grows more complex and budgets remain tight, the choice is clear: embrace innovation or fall behind. With Facial Intelligence, police forces can achieve more with less, restore public confidence, and focus on what matters most, protecting people from harm.
