Using Amazon Rekognition to Identify Persons of Interest for Law Enforcement Amazon Web Services

This is a guest post by Chris Adzima, a Senior Information Systems Analyst for the Washington County Sheriff's Office. In law enforcement, it is extremely important to identify persons of interest quickly. In most cases, this is accomplished by showing a picture of the person to multiple law enforcement officers in hopes that someone knows the person. In Washington County, Oregon, there are nearly 20,000 different bookings (when a person is processed into the jail) every year. As time passes, officers' memories of individual bookings fade.