Romanian police initiated an auction to buy a facial recognition software designed to help it recognize any of the citizens of Romania and based on recordings from the general public. Practically, the Romanian Police finally reaches the level that other authorities have reached for years, and wants to use facial recognition systems to identify people from video clips, or photos, that end up in its possession.
The Romanian Police opened the auction for this software in August, and is willing to spend up to 7 million LEI to buy it, the companies interested in delivering it can already submit their bids to the authorities. Of course, there have been many complaints from some who fear abuses, and this is justified since the image that the Romanian Police has is not exactly a great one at the moment.
The Romanian Police Buys Facial Recognition Software in Public
However, the Romanian Police say that a software of this kind would help them a lot in identifying people who commit crimes, missing people, and not only that, which is perfectly true. In many other countries in the West, there are facial recognition systems for the video monitoring infrastructure in cities, and what the Romanian Police wants to do is not exactly new, but only an alignment with the standards that exist in other countries at the moment.
The Romanian Police needed a software of this kind for a long time, which certainly exists in other authorities already, but it will be extremely useful for those who have to identify people in many other situations. Theoretically, this facial recognition software should help a lot in the investigations that the Romanian Police is doing at the moment, but also in those that it will carry out in the future.
The Romanian Police wants the facial recognition system to be implemented as soon as possible for use, so it will be interesting to see when exactly it will be officially presented.
