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             Solution – police missing person











            Missing person                                  with details or to use facial                  medium to long term contract with
                                                            recognition to query the database              Northants can be secured (which
            Futr is working with the                        when they find someone lost                    Futr have been assured), then Futr
            Northamptonshire police on a                    without ID. It will also provide a             are willing to absorb that cost in
            number of areas to improve with                 complete audit trail and will be               light of good monthly recurring
            Bots. One example is a missing                  created once an individual’s                   licence fees. Futr expect to charge
            person bot which was proposed to                personal information is captured in            Northants in the region of £2k per
            Northants Police who then agreed                the bot, thereby reducing the                  month for this bot and much larger
            to fund the PoC. Data available for             administrative paperwork required              constabs like the Met, much more.
            West Yorkshire Police states that on            of an officer to file the incident.
            average, each high-risk missing                                                                Other opportunities
            person costs £3,202 in officer time             Futr presented this bot at the
            (30 PC hours, 15 Sgt Hours 5                    launch of the Police Tech Pioneers             Futr also has a number of other
            inspector Hours, 2 Supt Hours); with            in late 2018 and were approached               concepts being developed for the
            medium risk cases cost (average)                by the Met who said the bot would              police. In addition they are
            £1,234 in officer time.                         save them £10m per year.                       targeting councils and national
                                                                                                           public sector bodies.
            The Missing Persons bot is actually             Futr is awaiting a meeting to agree
            two bots; one for the public / carers           the roll-out of the bot to a large test
            to upload their ward’s details (incl.           group and then to the public. Futr
            photo), alert when missing and                  are also meeting with the Met in
            track progress and the other for the            December. There is a cost to
            emergency services to be alerted                building the production-ready bot,
            when someone has gone missing                   but so long as a meaningful
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