Association of Super Recognisers Presentation Day- change of date
/Due to the on-going concerns regarding the Covid 19 virus, the Association Presentation Day has been moved from the May date to Friday 18th September. The ceremony will still be held at a central London venue from 1pm to 3pm. More details to follow once confirmed.
Facial recognition: Artists trying to fool cameras
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There is every reason to suspect that this make-up may fool a computer, but the Association has little doubt that human Super Recognisers could see through the disguise. More reason for law enforcement agencies, military units and security companies should seek out their SRs.
Super Recognisers hit the headlines again!
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Thanks to Association Member, Andy Pope, and his fantastic identification rate for the West Midlands, several articles have appeared in the British press relating to Super Recognisers. Here is just one example!
Super Recognisers Praised by Former President of the Chartered Society of Forensic Sciences
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In this interview, Professor Martin Evison of Northumbria University and former President of the Chartered Society of Forensic Sciences questions the police use of automated facial recognition systems. He does, however, have high praise for the use of human Super Recognisers. It is time for law enforcement to start using the skills of their PEOPLE to spot offenders. At Super Recognisers International, we can help you to find your Super Recognisers and train them how to use their skill within the law and to best effect.
Listen to the podcast 'Super-Recogniser' cop that never forgets a face - Mail+
/Click to 19 minutes to hear Mike Neville discuss the Super Recognisers.
How is it that only two polices forces in the whole of the UK use super recognisers?!
Super Recognisers needed for TV documentary
/A documentary is under consideration by a large broadcasting group. To show the diversity of Super Recognisers, those from ethnic minorities or disabled groups are sought. For further information please contact gemma.havard@superrecognisersinternational.com if you fit this criteria and have interesting Super Recognition skills to relate. This will be paid work.
German Super Recogniser case hits the news
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Police's super-eye discovers wanted thief
The Stuttgart police have unusual talents – they recognize the faces of people they have seen in search photos. To the displeasure of a fugitive offender.
The 34-year-old should not have passed the police headquarters at the Pragsattel in the light rail. However, he had no idea that a specialist of the police would board the U-15 train in the direction of Stammheim that late evening. One with a special eye for people. A so-called super-recogniser.
The fact that the Stuttgart police have about 70 talents, who can memorize faces particularly well and recognize them in any situation, has once again paid off. A 36-year-old traffic route investigator had been working with the traffic police for a long time when he was on a light rail in the north of Stuttgart shortly after 10 p.m. on Thursday. But then everything immediately returned to duty.
Talent search with help from London
A 34-year-old man, whose image was registered in the police search systems, was sitting on the train and had been put out for arrest. The person concerned, who had not begun his sentence for theft, immediately suspected evil when he noticed the eyes of another resting on him. Already at the next stop, at the level of Sieglestraße in Feuerbach, he tried to get up and away – and escape in the darkness of the industrial area of Feuerbach.
Why could he be recognized in the first place? In February 2018, the Stuttgart police had participated in a project in which officers were sought who have a special memory. The facial features can memorize themselves so well within seconds that they would still recognize the affected persons after years in a crowd. The Metropolitan Police in London has had a special unit of such super-re-recognizers for years – and together with a scientist from the University of Greenwich, the Stuttgarters were looking for talent in their own ranks. With success.
The fugitive has a knife with him
In September 2019, for example, a Stuttgart super-recogniser, also in the evening, had tracked down an EC card thief in Zuffenhausen, whom he had met by chance on the sidewalk. And the 34-year-old in the current case had no chance either. "The colleague is a very good runner," said police spokeswoman Monika Ackermann. He sprinted behind the fugitive, several hundred meters to the Magirusstraße. There the man gave up. "He then also released his knife," says spokeswoman Ackermann. The 34-year-old, who is known to police with offences across the Criminal Code, then began his sentence.
Association Presentation Day
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All those who have completed the recent courses and have been identified as Super Recognisers or Super Matchers by the University of Greenwich will receive their licenses at the next presentation day. This will be held in central London on 20th May, 1pm to 3pm with Lord Lingfield, the chairman awarding the certificates.
A number of Honorary Fellowships will be awarded to those who have contributed to research or operational use of Super Recognisers.
Invites will be sent out in due time.
If you are interested in becoming a Licentiate then please email gemma.havard@associationofsuperrecognisers.org