by Ng Natasha Goa Sheng and Ingvild Marie Svardal
Denmark is experiencing a rise in gang-related violence as Swedish gangs travel over the border to carry out deadly shootings and other vile crimes in the country.
Nørreport is one of the areas in Copenhagen with the most surveillance cameras. Credit: Ingvild Marie Svardal
To reduce gang-related violence, the Danish justice department is now collaborating with the police force to reduce gang-related crime.
Announced by Peter Hummelgaard, the Justice Minister of Denmark, one of the new measures is to allow police to use facial recognition technology to identify suspects easily.
Hummelgaard described facial recognition technology as a very good idea but to allow facial recognition technology, the law needs to be changed, and the government is planning to do so as soon as they can.
According to Nick, a local living in Copenhagen, using facial recognition technology can catch more criminals. However, he thinks there are security risks. “It will be worse because the police can control anything,” he said.
Nick, from Copenhagen, is worried about the rise of organized crime in the capital. Credit: Ingvild Marie Svardal
“We need more police in the store to catch the criminals than just more technology, so more human resources will be better,” Nick said.
Other than introducing facial recognition technology to the country, Denmark is also implementing a higher police presence on trains linking Denmark and Sweden, and deploying better software to monitor encrypted messages.
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