In May 2015 , the London Metropolitan Police officially formed a team made up of people with this heightened capability for recognising people and put them to work identifying individuals whose faces are captured on CCTV . Scotland Yard has a squad of over 200 super recognisers . In August 2018 , it was reported that the Metropolitan Police had used two super recognisers to identify the suspects of the attack on Sergei and Yulia Skripal , after trawling through up to 5,000 hours of CCTV footage from Salisbury and numerous airports across the country
Sergei and Yulia Skripal
Poisoning of Sergei and Yulia Skripal
Super recogniser