ALT PUBLIC CALL OUT! FACIAL RECOGNITION AT NOTTING HILL CARNIVAL There will be facial recognition vans at Notting Hill Carnival this weekend. We’re encouraging YOU to: Print and hand out bustcards, leaflets and masks Get some printed online or from your local printers, and spend 10 minutes, 30 minutes, an hour - whatever you can spare - handing them out to people at NHC, especially ahead of any facial recognition vans you see. Intervene when you see a stop and search Violent stop and searches are rife at NHC. Take the time to intervene in a stop and search, even if you’ve never done it before, using the tips on the bustcards. The most important thing is showing care to someone who is being stopped and searched. Consider the history of NHC & your positionality Racialised police violence contributed to the inception of Notting Hill Carnival, and has been present ever since. Different demographics experience privilege differently, especially regarding police and state violence.

ALT PUBLIC CALL OUT! FACIAL RECOGNITION AT NOTTING HILL CARNIVAL There will be facial recognition vans at Notting Hill Carnival this weekend. We’re encouraging YOU to: Print and hand out bustcards, leaflets and masks Get some printed online or from your local printers, and spend 10 minutes, 30 minutes, an hour - whatever you can spare - handing them out to people at NHC, especially ahead of any facial recognition vans you see. Intervene when you see a stop and search Violent stop and searches are rife at NHC. Take the time to intervene in a stop and search, even if you’ve never done it before, using the tips on the bustcards. The most important thing is showing care to someone who is being stopped and searched. Consider the history of NHC & your positionality Racialised police violence contributed to the inception of Notting Hill Carnival, and has been present ever since. Different demographics experience privilege differently, especially regarding police and state violence.

ALT Why not call the police? Only 40% of people in England trust their police force, despite 55% increase in funding in the last decade with statistics of police being ineffective at keeping us safe

ALT Flowchart of different options considerations and questions to ask before calling the police

ALT WARNING!! POLICE FACIAL RECOGNITION SURVELLIANCE CAMERAS ARE IN USE. Avoid walking past. Police officers can not force you to walk past a camera. Wear a Mask. It is not illegal to wear a mask or cover your face. In select cases, when a ‘Section 60’. s in place, police can stop and search people and require the removal of any items which conceal identity. Police must notify you if a ‘Section 60’ is authorised. Reply no comment when asked your name or address by police. Ask if you are ‘being detained’ - if you are not being detained, you do not need to give any details and are free to walk away. 98% of Metropolitan police facial recognition alerts have wrongly identified members of the public as people of interest.¹ Use of facial recognition technology is being investigated as violating the Human Rights Act 1998 that any interference with the Article 8 right to a private life is both necessary and proportionate.¹