Football clubs ask for help to fund facial recognition technology

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The Scottish Professional Football League has asked for financial support from the government for a scheme designed to tackle offensive behaviour in stadiums from next season, Raman Bhardwaj reports.

 

Meetings have already taken place between representatives of the SPFL and the Scottish Government over a request for financial help to introduce facial recognition technology, costing up to £4m, which will be used to identify offenders.

 

The league governing body is determined to take a firm stance on sectarian singing, the use of flares and other offensive behaviour, and believes the scheme could be effective following incidents involving Celtic, Rangers and Dundee United supporters.

 

The move towards the technology, which would be the first of its kind in the UK, is designed to identify those guilty of violence, offensive singing, use of pyrotechnics and any other prohibited behaviour.

 

One proposal would see the introduction of facial-recognition software to identify troublemakers and create a database of supporters who should be banned from grounds across the country.

 

If someone on the black list attempted to enter a stadium, an alert would be received allowing clubs to take action. It would then be the responsibility of clubs to ensure these fans were unable to gain access to matches.

 

The scheme would be introduced along with new rules and harsher punishments for clubs who fail to deal with supporters engaged in disorderly behaviour.

 

A points deduction would be among the more severe outcomes under the plan, which would bring an end to the current policy of clubs not being punished as long as they openly condemn such behaviour.

 

Debate over how to deal with crowd disorder in Scottish football has escalated in recent weeks. Scottish FA chief executive Stewart Regan has called for the introduction of "strict liability" rules to bring clubs to account for any rule breaches, aligning Scottish rules with UEFA regulations.

 

STV understands the SPFL proposal would not involve introducing strict liability, with those behind the move hopeful their plans will provide a compromise between the current inaction and the desire for immediate punishment.

 

What a load of p!sh!

[aweebluesoandso 290]

Fecking Tims are all inbred, they all look alike.

[boabie 230]

The football clubs brought in stewards so they wouldn't have to meet the full cost of policing matches. Now they want tax payers to pay for technology to identify folk who could be identified if there were enough cops inside the stadium. Clubs are private companies and now that they may be at risk of punishment they want money. The SFA supported this legislation, why should my taxes pay to enforce a half thought out law ?

[trublusince1982 243]

This will have supporters flocking through the turnstiles. Everybody will be delighted to have their face scanned and logged!

 

 

How do they purpose to get by the data protection laws? One team cannot share info on a customer with another

Edited January 19, 2016 by trublusince1982

[andy steel 0]

I'd be gob smacked and very disappointed if the government couldn't find a better use for £2m than to give it to a financially irresponsible sector like football.

 

Apparently celtc signed a Danish defender yesterday, his wages and fees would probably cover the entire programme.

[Bluedell 5,679]

I'd be gob smacked and very disappointed if the government couldn't find a better use for £2m than to give it to a financially irresponsible sector like football.

 

Yeah, I'm sure there's a few more road signs that need to have Gaelic added to them

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Total waste of money, in't it? The SNP probably don't want to upset Labour, the Lib Dems of the Tories, whose brought the idea in/backed it with vigour:

 

Bilingual roadsigns were instigated by the first Labour/Lib Dem administration in 2003 in the Gaelic Language (Scotland) Act, which set out “the status of the Gaelic language as an official language of Scotland commanding equal respect to the English language”. It was passed by the second Labour/Lib Dem government in 2005, and subsequently found backing from Tory MSPs:.

 

“I come from a party that, as Ted Brocklebank rightly said, has given considerable support to Gaelic in the past. The Scottish Conservatives have always understood that Gaelic is an essential part of our heritage and, indeed, our social fabric.” – Liz Smith MSP (Mid Scotland and Fife)

 

“I am proud of the Scottish Conservatives’ record on that. In a speech in the first parliamentary session, the former Labour MSP for the Western Isles, Alasdair Morrison, effusively thanked the Conservatives for igniting the Gaelic revival by funding Gaelic media and education.

 

Alasdair Morrison was right. I am proud of previous Conservative ministers, such as Malcolm Rifkind and Michael Forsyth, who knew the value of the Gaelic heritage and wanted not to lose it but to encourage it.” – Jamie McGrigor MSP (Highlands and Islands)."

 

Edited January 20, 2016 by andy steel

[buster. 5,257]

So ludicrous I thought it was a spoof at first.

[compo 7,212]

Would be better spending 2 million pounds stocking up the food banks

[colinstein 294]

Fecking Tims are all inbred, they all look alike.

 

aye....rid her an' skelly eyes.

 

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