Madeleine McCann super recognisers 'to track down potential new suspect in holiday pics'

Madeleine McCann super recognisers 'to track down potential new suspect in holiday pics'

Mick Neville founded the Met's Central Forensic Image Team and now runs Super Recognisers International – with its members capable of remembering 80% of the faces they see
ByTom TowersNews Reporter

   13:22, 5 APR 2020Updated22:27, 5 APR 2020

A former detective could provide the breakthrough needed to track down Madeleine McCann by using "super recognisers" to sift through the family’s holiday snaps and pick out a new suspect.

Mick Neville, who founded the Met Police’s Central Forensic Image Team in 2012, now runs Super Recognisers International.

Its members can remember 80% of the faces they see, allowing them to pore through CCTV footage and pictures to identify criminals and missing people.

Neville has previously said that Maddie could be identified by utilising Facebook’s facial recognition technology and passing images on to his recruits.

He now believes a new suspect could be identified by analysing pictures of Maddie from the family's 2007 Portugal holiday in Praia da Luz and cross-checking against police sketches.

Asked whether the super recognisers could go through police drawings, Neville told Daily Star Online: “Up to a point, but you’re always translating what somebody’s told you.”

He said “the best thing if looking for a person of interest” would be pictures of Madeleine from the Praia da Luz beach.

If new pictures were released, his team may be able to identify suspects lurking in the background.

Super recognisers could corroborate any of these faces with known criminals, potentially leading to a breakthrough in the case.

All other public pictures of Madeleine have already been exhausted, with police seemingly making no progress in the investigation.

The forensics expert has offered his service to the Find Madeleine campaign twice, detailing what his super recognisers are capable of.

However, he is yet to receive a response.

In 2016, his team snared a thief by tracking a logo on his T-shirt.

Richard Shelley was jailed after a stealing spree throughout south London from 2013-2015.

Super recognisers used the Forensic Image Linking system to identify suspects with a similar appearance, and pinpointed his T-shirt with the Everest logo.

During the London riots in 2011, more than 200,000 hours of CCTV footage were ­analysed by facial recognition software and only one criminal was identified.

The same footage was passed over to the Met’s super recogniser unit and Neville’s team spotted 609 criminals.

One officer alone, PC Gary Collins, identified 180.

Last month, a facial recognition expert created a new up-to-date image of Madeleine using advanced AI technology.

The picture, produced by Bradford University professor Hassan Ugail, shows what missing Maddie could look like now aged 16.

His approach maps out key features such as the shape of the cheeks, mouth and forehead.

This information was then fed into a computer algorithm, which synthesises new features for the face to produce photo-quality images.

And it could have produced the most accurate and up-to-date image of missing Maddie ever seen.

https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/madeleine-mccann-super-recognisers-to-21804254

A former detective could provide the breakthrough needed to track down Madeleine McCann by using "super recognisers" to sift through the family’s holiday snaps and pick out a new suspect.

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Good luck with that!

Suspicious characters, lurking in the background. Or in the foreground?

If photos were published the whole nation would become super recognisers

plebgate wrote:If photos were published the whole nation would become super recognisers

If they were really interested they would publish them all because someone might recognise someone.

Desperate parents would do that.

But they never have.

BlueBag wrote:

to sift through the family’s holiday snaps and pick out a new suspect.

Not just the family's photos.


They had photos sent to them from other holiday makers as well - plus the Tapas crew.

Nonsense!  They were all sent to Jim Gamble, former chief executive of the CEOP

Sorry mate you're too late, the best pe-e-e-e-e-e-z went to .... err .... Cambodia?

It's ridiculous because the statistics for coloboma (or just a little fleck in the eye they didn't make much of   ) are between 2 and 14 per 100,000 live births.
 If you then divide this by gender(are we still allowed to do that!) then the number of  faces that would have to studied as against the possible matches would be colossal. 

This is one giant red herring.

Olive Oyl takes some beating but this Tom Towers person surpasses all others for crass stupidity

He's at if again  

Why does the editor/sub-editor allow him to get away with it - the man's a half-wit.  It's Easter Sunday (I think), so I'm feeling generous.

Madeleine McCann cops urged to use groundbreaking DNA technology to crack case

Ex-chief inspector Mick Neville believes the Met Police should "look into every possbility" if they want to identify a culprit
By Tom Towers News Reporter

   17:39, 12 APR 2020

An ex-detective has called on the Met Police to utilise a DNA expert in a bid to finally crack the Madeleine McCann case.

Maddie disappeared on May 3, 2007, from her bed in a holiday apartment in Praia da Luz, Portugal.

Despite a wide-ranging police hunt lasting to this day, cops appear no closer to a culprit.

Last year, DNA expert Mark Perlin, based in Pittsburgh, the US, offered to re-test key samples from the investigation using innovative technology that hadn't been available to investigators 13 years ago.

However, the Met has so far ignored his request.

Ex-chief inspector Mick Neville told Daily Star Online: “They should look into every possibility.



https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/madeleine-mccann-cops-urged-use-21845247

Mind you, it this is their idea of newsworthy headlines..



Awkward!

What a bummer! I wonder what pro-fessor came up with that corker.

Is this curious person in a time warp or is this the lead-up to the anniversary + inevitable continuation of Sloperation Grange..

Madeleine McCann: Team of 'super-recognizers' can track down missing girl using holiday photos, says ex-cop

Mick Neville, who runs Super Recognizers International, says his team consists of people who can remember up to 80% of the faces they have seen and has had previous successes

By Akshay Pai

Updated On : 05:31 PST, Apr 20, 2020

A former police officer has claimed that his team of facial "super-recognizers" can find Madeleine McCann and that he has offered his services to her grieving parents.

Mick Neville, formerly a chief inspector who founded the Metropolitan Police's Central Forensic Image Team in 2012, said he is now running Super Recognizers International, whose members can recognize up to 80 percent of the faces they see.



https://meaww.com/former-police-officer-claims-team-super-recognizers-track-down-madeleine-mc-cann-via-holiday-pics

Déjà vu  

I'm a " super recogniser " 

I recognise b/s when I see it