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Can officers use surveilance video to identify a suspect through car computer scan?

F.T. Norton
StarNews

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Neither the Wilmington Police Department or the New Hanover County Sheriff’s Office use facial recognition software, according to their respective spokespeople.

“At this point it is still cutting edge technology which means it’s expensive,” said New Hanover sheriff’s Sgt. Jerry Brewer.  “We do use biometrics such as fingerprint and eye retina scan.”

A retinal scan is a technique that identifies a person by the unique patterns on a person’s retina.

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Date posted: April 5, 2012

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One Response to “ Can officers use surveilance video to identify a suspect through car computer scan?”

  1. On April 7, 2012 at 5:33 pm Dennis wrote:

    It doesn’t matter, They will do it anyway…..



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