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The power of the ‘e-fit’ appears to be on the wane after new figures showed that just one of more than 30 images issued by a police force led to an arrest. The technology, which updated photofits originally introduced in the 1970s, may be dwindling as newer technology such as CCTV and DNA analysis is used in growing numbers of police investigations, experts said. Suffolk Police released data which showed it had created 87 computer-generated e-fits in the last two and a half years, of which 31 were made public with the rest circulated internally. In total they led to 10 arrests but only one was made as a result of the images released to the public. It comes after widespread criticism of the quality of some images released nationwide, which included one from Suffolk in April last year which appeared to depict a “ninja” with a black hood and only his eyes visible. • Police defend ‘lettuce-head’ e-fit “We have better ways of catching people these days through CCTV, automatic number plate recognition and DNA,” said David Wilson, professor of criminology at Birmingham City University. “But eyewitness evidence has never been particularly helpful, and its usefulness is one of […]
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