The days of criminals roaming free in China are numbered as the police will soon have cars that will be able to scan faces of people and identify those that have pending warrants of arrests.

Students at Sichuan Province's University of Electronic Science and Technology of China have developed a police car that is able to scan faces while patrolling streets.

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According to the official Xinhua news agency, the face-scanning police car is equipped with a high-tech camera mounted on its rooftop.

The camera can capture faces of people within a radius of 60 meters even if the car is running at a speed of 120 kilometers per hour.

The captured images will then be sent to the police database for quick check and an alarm will be sounded off if matches are found

Aside from scanning people's faces, the police car also detects vehicle information and identifies mobile phones within its radius.

According to Yin Guangqiang, director of the police-use advanced technology institute at the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, the car is not just a means of transportation but an effective tool for law enforcement.

"The new car is not just a means of transportation. It is more like a smart law enforcement system on wheels," Yin said.

While police cars in China are mostly refitted from commercial vehicles according to the requirements of the local police, the high-tech police cars will are different.

"The new cars we developed will address a lot of problems arising from poor standardization from commercial car models," Yin said.

He added that the engineers and students added a host of new technologies to the high-tech police cars over the seven-month development period.

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