Shop owner installs AI cameras to beat shoplifters
A Surrey business owner has installed facial recognition cameras in his shop following an increase in assaults from regular shoplifters.
Danyal Shoaib said he lost £7,000 to theft in a year, while staff at his business in Leatherhead, Surrey, faced an increasing amount of abuse, including racial slurs.
"When we started to get physical assaults on staff, that's when we thought this isn't fair on them and we needed to do something about it," he said.
Last month, he installed a new security camera that feeds into facial recognition software capable of identifying suspected offenders that have been flagged on the system, either by Mr Shoaib's business or others signed up to the scheme.
