Raj cops to use face-recognition tech to nab crooks at shrines

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JAIPUR: Thugs who knock on temple doors to seek divine help for unholy businesses might learn the hard way that the cops mean business, too.
Jaipur police have started trial runs of an AI-powered Facial Recognition System (FRS) to track down criminals visiting religious places after finding that such trips were a recurring pattern.
Additional commissioner of police (law and order) Kunwar Rasthradeep pointed out that it was common for criminals to seek a date with their favourite deities before and after committing illegal acts.
“We experimented with the technology during Janmashtami celebrations (September 6). We began with a limited data of about 3,000 individuals, and the software successfully identified 13 suspects with prior records,” Rasthradeep said.

Jaipur police are rolling up their sleeves to start the second phase of the test runs by putting all available data on criminals into the software ahead of next week’s Ganesh Chaturthi, with the famous

Moti Dungari

Ganesh temple picked as a possible location.