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We also may want to make use of live facial recognition, which may help the police to deal with this scourge and obviously does not work when faces are covered. As I did not speak on the LFR amendment, I would add that facial recognition can help with serious offences. There was an interesting article in the Times in December about a convicted sex offender who was walking alone with a six year-old girl, whose mother he had befriended, when he was caught out, thankfully, by LFR and given a two-year sentence. We also heard how LFR was being used in Croydon on another occasion. However, the noble Baroness, Lady Doocey, suggested, I think rightly, that any LFR legislation would probably take another two years and I do not believe that we can wait for that Bill to deal with the scourge of cycle and scooter crime.