South Wales Police

A look at Operation Tendley 2, a large-scale multi-agency road traffic collision exercise that took place recently in South Wales to test coordination, decision-making, and emergency response under realistic conditions.

More than 500 police officers across South Wales and Gwent have now been trained to use a pioneering mobile facial recognition app, marking a significant step forward in UK policing technology.

Over 400 medical students joined Welsh police, fire and ambulance services at a multi-agency exercise that saw four challenging road traffic collision scenarios played out over the course of one day giving them an insight into roadside response before casualties are taken to hospital.

Public organisations across Wales have signed a new charter which commits them to responding to public tragedies with openness, transparency and accountability.

South Wales Police has committed £10m over five years for the new fleet but like everyone else, they are looking for charging capability that meets the fleet’s needs otherwise they won’t be able to keep them on the road.

South Wales Police has announced it will deploy additional live facial recognition (LFR) cameras in Cardiff during this year’s Six Nations rugby internationals as a further measure to keep city centre visitors safe.

Chief Constable Jeremy Vaughan has joined the board of the Police Digital Service (PDS), boosting the governance of the organisation that is  responsible for coordinating, developing, delivering, and managing digital services and solutions for UK policing.

Wales’s four police forces will be better supported by the UK government as a result of its mission to deliver safer streets.

MPs gathered in Westminster to debate the issue of live facial recognition, where the Policing Minister acknowledged the absence of a single law to give the police the power to use the technology but having only served less than five months in office, she said the government wanted to take time to listen to find a way that the use of live facial recognition “secures and maintains public confidence.”

North Wales Police will use live facial recognition (LFR) at specific events across the region following its successful deployment earlier this year at Holyhead Port.