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Our structures are outdated, and so is our adoption of the tools and technology that could make our policing more effective and more efficient. Criminals are operating in increasingly sophisticated ways, but in policing, in all honesty, our response is mixed. While some forces surge ahead, with the results to show for it, others are fighting crime in a digital age with analogue methods. We will ensure that every force is adopting the latest technology, led out of the new national police service. This will include the largest-ever rollout of live facial recognition technologies, across England and Wales. We know that this approach works. In London, in just two years, the Metropolitan Police has made 1,700 arrests, taking robbers, domestic abusers and rapists off our streets.