South Australia Police plans to deploy a crime-fighting facial recognition system developed by NEC under a new contract worth AU$780,000 (US$590,000).The system will use NEC's NeoFace facial recognition software to analyse footage of suspects and match it against mugshot databases and watch lists.Police Minister Peter Malinauskas has said the technology will be rolled out by late October as part of a state government push to reduce crime by boosting police numbers and resources.South Australia Police Superintendent Scott Allison told reporters on Monday that the region was influence by the success of the technology in the Northern Territory, which was also implemented by NEC Australia.”They've had extraordinary results from CCTV images that they've captured, through to enhanced investigations, even historical investigations,” Allison said.Northern Territory Police partnered with NEC Australia almost a year ago to implement facial-recognition technology, deploying NEC's NeoFace Reveal solution following a trial of the tech in early 2015. The technology allows NT Police to search through its database of photos, CCTV footage, and videos taken from phones, drones, and body-worn cameras to compare to the police database of photos.In April this year, NEC Australia also secured a AU$52 million contract with Australian law-enforcement technology agency CrimTrac to replace the National Automated Fingerprint Identification System (NAFIS) in 2017.Earlier this year, NEC also won the CrimTrac tender to take over the operation of its national automated fingerprint identification system, which will also incorporate facial recognition capabilities for the first time.

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