“Sometimes you are just asked to trust the FR function is not switched on.”
At least 5000 and possibly more than 10,000 private CCTV cameras across New Zealand feed two privately owned number-plate recognition systems, and police tap into them. Woolworths put bodycams on checkout staff at almost 200 stores, with footage stored by a Singaporean company. Police still don’t have bodycams. The supermarket does.