Require more data from Centre on missing children: Police to HC

The Delhi Police today told the Delhi High Court that it has held a trial run of its newly acquired face recognition software (FRS) for tracing missing children and they required more details from the Centre regarding the place from where some of the missing children were found.

The police said that in pursuance to the court's earlier direction, it has procured photographic data of the missing children from the Ministry of Women and Child Development (MWCD) but it needed further details of places from where the children, who were identified in the face recognition software test, were reported to be found.

Delhi Police, in an affidavit, said "on processing the photographic data of so-far missing children for matching with the records of so-far found children on the newly acquired FRS, the software application gave 2,930 matches between the missing database photographic records and the found database photographs."
They said the ministry be asked to "provide arrangement/ design module for enabling Delhi Police ZIPNET Application to electronically search 'FOUND CHILDREN' data on the link from the www.trackthemissingchild.gov.in for taking further action without waiting for the response from the MWCD/NIC."