super recogniser

She is a "super recogniser", someone with a significantly above average ability to place a face.

Neville said one super recogniser saw what he thought was a drug deal, but wasn't sure.

It is not known if Ali, right, was found by a 'super recogniser'

While most people can learn to remember faces better, scientists say, it is unlikely they could match the powers of a super recogniser.

The next day, the super recogniser saw the same person and when police intervened, they found the suspect with crack cocaine.

One super recogniser alone identified nearly 300 offenders.

He's a 'super recogniser,' and that's giving an unusual kind of help to his employer: Scotland Yard.

Super recogniser Idris Bada.

He is Idris the Jailer, and his astonishing powers of recall are such that he's being studied by scientists, who have declared him a "super recogniser."

Neville started the super recogniser unit after realising the police had no system for identifying criminals based on images, unlike those for DNA and fingerprints.

During the riots, another super recogniser, Haringey's PC Martin Lotriet, identified a rioter who had been arrested on multiple occasions, just by his eyes.

At Scotland Yard's request, Davis ran several tests on 18 of the best-performing super recogniser cops and found many scored off the charts when compared to average people.

'The judge is supposed to exercise independent judgment but often anything goes,' he said, explaining that a super recogniser's identification of a suspect based on a grainy image might be sufficient to issue a search warrant.

Kaye also noted cases where expert witnesses didn't need to have their skills verified before testifying in court and thought that in most instances, the prosecution would have more evidence than simply the identification of an alleged criminal by a super recogniser.