Keynotes
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| 16 July |
13:45-14:15 |
Mick Neville, Detective Chief Inspector (DCI), Metropolitan Police Service's Caught on Camera.
Catching Criminals with Images - the Scotland Yard experience
DCI Neville will describe the practical issues regarding gathering and viewing CCTV to identify offenders and put evidence before the courts. He will also discuss the value of human recognition abilities against facial recognition software. He will give a glimpse into the future, as to what systems may be used to identify offenders in the years to come.
DCI Mick Neville has extensive investigative experience, particularly relating to CCTV evidence. He served in the Royal Military Police and joined the Metropolitan Police in 1989. In 1999 the Commissioner commended him for solving a large number of robberies of banks, building societies and Post Offices, utilising CCTV images and informants - and this was start of his CCTV journey. As a Dedicated Informant Controller in south London, he introduced a successful system of using sources to identify suspects in CCTV images. He was the Senior Investigating Officer for the fox hunting demonstration, which occurred in Parliament Square. Much use was made of video and CCTV evidence, and he introduced systems to use victims of offences to view footage. His BSc (Hons) in Policing and Police Studies included research into street crime. He set up the VIIDO (dedicated police "Forensic Image" units) and Met Circulation Unit systems, which continue to make massive improvements in the detection of volume
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violent crime using CCTV and other forensic images (from mobile phones, cameras etc). He has also worked with businesses to improve their use of CCTV. He was in charge of images on Operation Withern - the investigation into the disorder and rioting across London in August 2011. He famously described the use of CCTV in UK as "an utter fiasco" but has since been instrumental in turning the use of images, including CCTV into the "Third Forensic Discipline". His current role is as head of the Central Forensic Image Team and Met Circulation Unit at New Scotland Yard. This includes the recently set up Area Ident Teams, which have TREBLED the identification rate of suspects "caught on camera". His messages include that courts, not CCTV Control Rooms, are "end users" and that with forensic images people and processes are more important than technology. Furthermore, (in these days of austerity) he sees the use of CCTV as a cheap and effective way to target serious and
volume crime and to target prolific offenders. He has addressed conferences across the world on Forensic Images. |
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09:10-09:40 |
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10:55-11:20 |
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