Martyn's Law & Super Recognisers

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If you a UK security provider or major venue (or involved in policing at such), then the introduction of "Martyn's Law" or Terrorism (Protection of Premises) Bill, mandates you to provide better measures to prevent attacks like the Manchester Arena bomb. BUT wherever you are based in the world, keeping places and communities safer is our duty in security and policing.

The use of human Super Recognisers, using their natural talent to identify known suspects and trained in spotting suspicious behaviour, will give you an extra tactic to beat the terrorist or other criminal gangs. By knowing which members of your team have this skill, you can deploy them to observe key or vulnerable locations. Details of the new law are at this link:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c8xe2k5zylpo

Super Recogniser Course Covers Five Continents!

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Last week, SRI Ltd ran a course for students from across five continents – Africa, Asia, Europe and North & South America, with independent testing by the University of Greenwich.  The students included police officers, a CCTV operator, identity verifiers and corporate investigators

The use of human Super Recognisers is spreading across the globe. Some of your staff will have this natural skill. The SRI team can find your Super Recognisers and train them to use it effectively in an operational environment, producing (where needed) evidence which is admissible in court. This will enhance your law enforcement teams, border force, CCTV control room, security officers or any other unit where identifying persons of interest as quickly as possible is critical to your success.

The next on-line course is 25th-27th February, but a bespoke on-line or face-to-face can be run for twelve or more students.

Super Recognisers International - Security Services & Training

New Research - Identification of Mask Wearers by Super Recognisers

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New research has confirmed that human Super Recognisers are able to spot suspects, despite face coverings. The abstract of this report notes: "The findings show an SR advantage for the detection of hyper‐realistic masks across the covert and explicit mask detection tasks."

Criminals are still taking advantage of the consequences of the Covid pandemic and are wearing masks, not for health purposes, but to try and conceal their identities. See the report via this link:

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/381990187_The_super-recogniser_advantage_extends_to_the_detection_of_hyper-realistic_face_masks

German Police Super Recognisers at Euro 2024 Football

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This article shows how the German Police are using Super Recognisers to keep international football matches safer. Professor Josh Davis, an Honorary Member of the Association, describes how he has helped the German Police to utilise their officers’ natural recognition skills.

'Euro 2024 hooligan spotters do something 99% of people can't - I helped find them' | Football | Sport | Express.co.uk

Super Recognisers & German TV Entertainment Show "Drei Gegen Einen"

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This message was received by the Assocation from German TV-Production company Endemol Shine, based in Cologne:

 We are currently producing a new episode of the Saturday evening show "Drei gegen Einen" ("Three against One") which has been very successful in Germany over the last year. The concept of the show is that three celebrity hosts compete against a champion who is unbeatable at what he or she does - be it a particular sport, a talent or another special gift that they have.  

 During my research I came across the phenomenon of super recognizing and have found it to be a very interesting topic for our show - but I have also realized the difficulties and certain obligations regarding discretion that every super recognizer is tied to that is associated with any police force. 

If you wish to be considered, email: mike.neville@superrecognisersinternational.com