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Day in, day out, tens of thousands of us hurry along past Piccadilly Gardens .

The area is perceived to be a magnet for crime and anti-social behaviour, and many of us hasten our step as we head from one end to another.

Fortunately for Greater Manchester Police , their clever new cameras barely need any time at all to work their magic.

The force is responsible for two new live facial recognition camera vans , which can be deployed anywhere across the North West.

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They have already been used in Sale and Bolton, where three people were arrested, and now they have been used in Piccadilly Gardens for the first time .

I went down on Monday morning to see the new cameras in action, meet the operators who monitor them, an

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