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Monday, September 01, 2003
Florida security camera system fails
Gabriel Syme (London)
(0)   Surveillance

Florida police have scrapped a security camera system that scanned city streets for criminals, saying it had failed to recognise anyone wanted by authorities since its introduction two years ago. The system was intended to recognise the facial characteristics of criminals and runaway children by matching passers-by in the Ybor City district of Tampa with a database of 30,000 mugshots.

"It's just proven not to have any benefit to us," Captain Bob Guidara, a department spokesman, said. The cameras have led only to arrests for such crimes as drug deals.