{"id":532708,"date":"2026-04-15T18:56:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T18:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/532708\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T18:56:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T18:56:08","slug":"david-lammy-biometric-checks-to-be-rolled-out-in-prisons-after-mistaken-releases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/532708\/","title":{"rendered":"David Lammy: Biometric checks to be rolled out in prisons after mistaken releases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Lammy said he would accept all 33 recommendations made by Dame Lynne, former deputy commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, <a href=\"https:\/\/assets.publishing.service.gov.uk\/media\/69df4b6f642d5aaff4e04fbf\/Independent_review_into_releases_in_error_-_redacted.pdf\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">in her report, external<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Trials of biometric fingerprint and facial recognition will begin within six months, he said, with a full roll-out expected before the end of this parliament.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">\u00a382m would be spent to &#8220;bear down on these errors and keep the public safe after years of chaos,&#8221; he said, including \u00a320m this year &#8220;to digitise the archaic paper-based processes we inherited&#8221; and increasing checks and staffing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Lammy also expressed his &#8220;profound sympathies to the victims of those prisoners who were released in error, especially to Hadush Kebatu&#8217;s victim&#8221;, adding that he had met the victim&#8217;s family in December.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lammy said he would accept all 33 recommendations made by Dame Lynne, former deputy commissioner of the Metropolitan&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":532709,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-532708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=532708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532708\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/532709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=532708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=532708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=532708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}