Police taking charge of the Champion's League final in Wales next month plan to use face recognition for security at the major football event.The facial recognition technology will be used to compare the faces against their database of around 500,000 “persons of interest”.The project is part of a pilot under a contract will last for two years, from April 2017 to April 2019, that will be worth £177,000, according to tender docs.”Programme Fusion is the collaborative technological programme between South Wales Police and Gwent Police,” reads the tender.”As part of the programme it is the intention to effectively utilise the advancements in automated facial recognition (AFR) technology.”The strategy for AFR falls into two broad areas. Real-time facial recognition and slow-time static face search. Real-time facial recognition being specifically linked to a live pilot on Saturday 3rd June 2017 in and around the principality stadium and Cardiff central train station on the day of the UCL Champions League Final.”The slow-time static face search being specifically linked to the 500,000 custody images stored within the Force's Niche Record Management system.”The plans and the tender were uncovered by the Motherboard tech website.

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