Fix police procurement and you fix police tech
"Policing has increasingly become the front-end or the “sharp-edge” of the whole range of social services available to the community. This is because police officers are often the very first point of contact for a vulnerable individual needing support. This puts tremendous strain on frontline officers who are under enormous pressure to do the right thing, often in situations for which they have received no training and have little external support."
In this article, which you can read 
"Not all police use of facial recognition should be controversial". That is the headline on Larry Anderson's article in Security Source, which you can read