Facewatch Together We Will Beat Crime - Simon Gordon (Securing Asia 2015)

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STRICTLY PRIVATE & CONFIDENTIAL
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Product update
April 2015

2. What is Facewatch?
Facewatch is a crime reporting platform that
enables businesses, communities and police to
work together to help reduce high volume
acquisitive crime.
3 Products:
The Platform (& Apps)
Facewatch ID
Crime reporting portal
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3. The Platform (& Apps)

4. The Facewatch Platform
• The main platform is the heart of Facewatch, it is:
– Police and CPS approved
– Fully Data Protection compliant
– Legally formalised: User T&C’s; Police data sharing
agreements
– Hosted in secure cloud with Sungard
– Fully scaleable with rest API’s to services
• Simple user interface and fully optimised for large or
small screens
• Associated Tools and Apps:
– Facewatch Mobile
– Facewatch Communicator
– Facewatch CCTV viewer
– Facial recognition

5. The Platform - main user interface
For full overview of screens on Facewatch website click here

6. Facewatch Mobile App
Coming May 2015
(Beta version available April 15)
• Brings Facewatch to your mobile with a completely native App
• Simple and clean user interface
• See Facewatch group posts and alerts
• See Group watch list(s)
• See incidents reported
• Report incidents:
– Instant ban (appears on Group Watch lists and promulgates facial
recognition systems instantly)
– Crime report
– CCTV upload

7. Facewatch Mobile App

8. Facewatch Communicator App
Coming May 2015
(Beta version available April 15)
• To supplement or replace radio schemes
• A simple App that allows instant sharing of images, video,
audio with your group
• Instant messaging with video, images, audio
• GPS located Alerts function
• SOS button to notify group of a problem, with location and
last 30 seconds of sound
• Optional extra: Push to Talk, with your whole group or one to
one (Radio style)
• Devices, SIM cards and accessories available separately
(professional external mic; speaker; earpieces etc)

9. Facewatch Communicator App
Available from July 2015 via Android and IOS app stores.
Push to Talk and smartphone with O2 SIM available separately

10. Facewatch CCTV Viewer
Coming May 2015
(Beta version available April 15)
• Emergency services CCTV viewer
• Works for any Facewatch connected site
• See all cameras from any internet connected mobile device
• Provides situational awareness on the way to incidents
• Reduces false alarms
• Single viewer which works with all major CCTV systems
• Rewind and Fast forward option to view recorded CCTV
• Push clips directly into Facewatch incident/crime reports
• Codecs and DVD’s become a thing of the past!

11. Video access for emergency services
Try demo (live view version): Click here
(Request username and password from:
simon@Facewatch.co.uk)

12. Facewatch Facial recognition partners
Coming May 2015
(Beta version available April 15)
• Facewatch acts as an independent central database for watch lists
• Police can use Facial Recognition for searching images in database
• Links to multiple facial recognition systems
• Facewatch ensures compliance with Data Protection (data weeding;
authorities; watch list management)
• Multiple watch lists available (Suspects; VIP’s; Members; Self excluders)
• Clients can choose any system and can even mix systems so do not get
tied in to one supplier
• Alerts are pushed direct to selected mobile devices
• Images stored centrally in secure Facewatch server so no data held on
local facial recognition servers
View demo:

13. Facial recognition overview
Enrol face
Warning!

14. Facewatch ID

15. Facewatch ID
• Free mobile App launched June 2012 to the public
• Available on IOS; Android stores (and as webpage on others)
• Post code centric images of police images requiring identification
• Public can enter any information about suspect and report instantly
and confidentially via the App or via Crimestoppers link (Facewatch
is partnered with Crimestoppers)
• Downloaded over 140,000 times
• Police are receiving actionable intelligence on around 20% of images
• Large numbers of arrests resulting from identifications
• National system, enables images to be made viewable in multiple
locations (police decide where they are shown)
• Fully data protection compliant and only police can add images after
appropriate investigation
• Discussed with Liberty and Big Brother Watch before launch

16. Facewatch ID
Available to download now from App stores

17. Facewatch Online Crime
Reporting Portal

18. Facewatch Online Crime
Reporting Portal
Available now
• Designed and built with Hampshire police
• Chat facility reduces police time on help calls
• Reduces police 101 call centre costs
• Force logo displayed
• Links to Niche police crime reporting system
• Will be linked to all major police information management
systems (eg Athena, Accenture Capita)
• Available free to police forces
• Hosted by Facewatch in secure cloud for annual hosting fee

19. Facewatch Crime Reporting Portal

20. Benefits to Police and Businesses

21. Benefits to police
• FW helps prevent, solve and reduce crime and anti-social
behaviour.
• FW enables the police to be open, responsive and accountable
to victims.
• FW can help a coordinated and effective response to major
incidents and public order events.
• FW helps deliver a more responsive and effective service to the
public and businesses.
• Helps the police use their resources more effectively.
• Supports partnership working in a coherent and integrated
manner.
• Helps minimise the impact of the cuts to the police.

22. THE FUNDAMENTALS TO
REDUCING BUSINESS CRIME
Analysis
Resources
Sharing

23. Benefits to Business
• A better understanding of how, where, when it is suffering
shrinkage/theft/security related incidents and by whom across the entirety of its
business. Facewatch can help join up the dots on a critical issue that currently
escapes any business not using Facewatch.
• No new equipment requirement
• Once the data from the incidents of interest has been analysed using the
Facewatch analytical tools, mitigating strategies can put in place that deliver:
• Enhanced levels of safety for employees through the distribution of up to date watch lists
that contain pictures of offenders taken from the business's CCTV.
• Enhanced levels of public safety.
• Improved protection of business value.
• Reduced expenditure on security with improved targeting of resources.
• Improved working relationship with the Police.
• Improved delivery of any corporate social responsibility programme by making the
community a safer and more secure environment.

24. Facewatch
For further information
www.facewatch.co.uk
info@facewatch.co.uk