Masks, problems for the police: How will criminals be discovered?

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said people would feel more comfortable getting out of isolation if they wore masks.

“As part of removing isolation and restrictions, I think facial coverage will be useful,” he said, arguing that masks will help people give confidence to get back to work.

However, the prospect of a new society in which they will wear masks in public creates problems for security and criminologists.

A criminologist from Kingston University near London, Francis Dodsworth, said such normality would create big problems for them.

This could open up opportunities for those who want to cover their faces for a criminal reason. They can do it now without much dilemma,” he warned.

He set an example of a recent arrest in Spain.

The Interior Ministry there said a terrorist of I The SIS was arrested last month in Almeria, a southern town where he had fled Syria. He said in a statement he had arranged his looks under the pandemic wearing a” mask, the criminologist said.

Experts warn that wearing masks will complicate crime investigations, and recognition of faces will be difficult.

Francis Dodsworth also warned that it is still unclear how masks on the face will affect the algorithm of programmes working on facial research.