Frontline Fightback: Season 2, Episode 6

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An Italian jeweller's in Ely, Cambridgeshire, is broken into and ransacked by a masked gang. But thanks to the latest facial recognition software, criminals like these can no longer be sure of evading justice. One company demonstrates how a suspect can be identified even if their face is partially hidden.

Meanwhile, shopkeepers in Clacton-on-Sea, Essex, take a stand against a would-be robber hiding behind a Covid face mask. And police in Telford, Shropshire, hunt down a serial arsonist who set fire to five cars in two nights.