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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