Kelly tells her story to Crawlspace.
The Podcast notes that in this episode Tim Pilleri and Lance Reenstierna speak with super recognizer Kelly Hearsey. The hosts make the point that Kelly “is basically a modern day superhero who uses her power for good”. If you think you have this skill, why not listen to Kelly’s journey from photographer to super recognizer (or recogniser if you are in UK!).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTdnxgoU4Y4&feature=youtu.be
Mike Neville, the CEO of the Association features on this episode of “Faking It: Tears of a Conman”, which tells the story of Anh Nhu Nguyen, who claimed that he had lost his home and his family as a result of the Grenfell Fire disaster, which occurred in London in 2017. His story was a fiction and Nguyen, a serial fraudster, was convicted of obtaining £12000 by the deception and jailed for 21 months. Super Recogniser skills played an integral part in convicting seventeen fraudsters for similar offences.
https://www.dplay.co.uk/show/faking-it-tears-of-a-crime/video/the-grenfell-conman/EHD_318718B
A suspect involved in rioting in Stuttgart was identified by a German Police Super Recogniser. The article below has been translated into English. Congratulations to the Stuttgart Police on embracing this new law enforcement tactic!
More arrest warrants after the night of the riots
Stuttgart - And again the handcuffs click: Three other alleged participants in the Stuttgart Randalenacht on June 21 have been sent into custody by a judge. They are three 18-year-olds. The Eckensee Investigation Group has thus identified more than 80 suspects. In just over half of the cases, the Public Prosecutor's Office has obtained an arrest warrant, a good part of which has since been suspended.
One was recognised by a so-called Super Recogniser on Thursday night. The officer with a trained memory saw the 18-year-old, who is known to the police and who was already being searched, by chance at the main station. The official was there privately. The homeless man is said to have smashed a shop window and threw a bottle at it.
Many suspects - but one is still missing
On 3 September, another 18-year-old went online. He, too, is said to have been involved in the riots and looting. He was wanted on a warrant for allegedly damaging shop windows and throwing a bottle. A judge sent him into custody. On 4 September, police arrested an 18-year-old from the district of Biberach. He is accused of looting goods and damaging a patrol car in a shop. He, too, is now behind bars.
Investigations are continuing against those involved in the looting. However, one suspect is still missing from the list: the attacker who attacked a police officer with a kickboxer kick is still unknown.
We live in a world where people can now go into banks and businesses wearing a mask - unthinkable a few months ago. Criminals can take advantage of the current virus crisis and use masks, not to control Covid 19, but to conceal their identity. Two reports show how human Super Recognisers can assist law enforcement agencies to identify those who commit crime with most of their face concealed.
Research by Prof Josh Davis of Greenwich University demonstrated that masked suspects can be identified by human Super Recognisers, see:
https://ef7ac492-0255-46b7-9653-75e8356be6c1.filesusr.com/ugd/9bb3fa_ea526c72142d4c5f8523167ec306cf11.pdf?index=true
Meanwhile, the US National Institute for Standards & Technology (NIST) notes that “Algorithms created before the pandemic generally perform less accurately with digitally masked faces.” People, in the form of Super Recognisers, are the solution.
https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2020/07/nist-launches-studies-masks-effect-face-recognition-software
See Kelly Hearsey, the COO of Super Recognisers International Ltd, being interviewed by the hosts of the breakfast TV show on Channel 10 in Australia. Kelly describes how she discovered her skills and became an operational Super Recogniser, working with the police, the security industry and the media to fight crime and identify persons of interest. The TV hosts also test their facial recognition abilities. You too could take this path, if you are a Super Recogniser!
Dr David Robertson and Prof Josh Davis speak about the benefits of human Super Recognisers (or Recognizers if you are in the USA!) and how they can make automated facial recognition software more effective AND more ethical, in accordance with civil liberties. As Prof Davis states, using Super Recognisers is just “good, old-fashioned policing” - the public expect police officers to identify criminals.
https://www.superrecognisers.com/post/videocasts-with-us-department-of-homeland-defense-security-information-analysis-center
The presentation day for Licentiates and Honorary Fellowships will be held on the afternoon of 4th February at 86 St James’s Street in central London. It is hoped that Covid 19 restrictions will allow th
September 04, 2020e event to occur. All those receiving awards from Lord Lingfield will be notified in due course.
The Zurich Polizei (City and Canton Police Forces) are the latest law enforcement agencies to use the skills of Super Recognisers. A police investigator, Lorenz Wyss, has written a thesis on the benefits of Super Recognisers and is convinced that they can assist to solve crime.
In the article (in German), it notes that:
In the Winterthur City Police, Lorenz Wyss used to compare pictures of pickpockets every day.
At an international conference on pickpocketing, he first heard of super-recognizers: people with the ability to easily memorize and recognize faces. With this talent, it has been proven that higher hit rates can be achieved in identifications. To implement this idea in the canton of Zurich, he pursued in his diploma thesis in the advanced technical examination.
He was enthusiastic about this and was awarded the VSPB innovation prize.The Association wish the Swiss Police well in their use of this vital crime fighting tool. Another nation is added to the list of those using Super Recognisers to make their cities safer.
https://www.vspb.org/content/docs/003%20Aktuell/1%20Verbandszeitung%20police/Ausgabe%20072020/Höhere%20Trefferquote%20dank%20Super-Recognizern.pdf
The Association is very pleased to announce that Josh Davis has been promoted to Professor of Psychology. For many years Josh has been at the forefront of the research into Super Recognisers, beginning with the Metropolitan Police in 2011. As a result of his efforts, he was the first academic to receive Honorary Fellowship of the Association from Lord Lingfield. We wish Professor Davis every success in his future work.
Kelly Hearsey, the COO of Super Recognisers International Ltd gave an account of her work as a Super Recogniser in a new article. Read about her work at:
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/ep487p/how-police-are-using-super-recognizers-like-me-to-track-criminals
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