Armed drones, iris scanners: China’s high-tech security gadgets

People walk past a poster simulating facial recognition software at the Security China 2018 exhibition on public safety and security in Beijing, China October 24, 2018. REUTERS/Thomas Peter

BEIJING: From virtual reality police training programmes to gun-toting drones and iris scanners, a public security expo in China showed the range of increasingly high-tech tools available to the country’s police. 

The exhibition, which ran Oct 23 to 25 in Beijing, emphasised surveillance and monitoring technology just as the Communist government’s domestic security spending has skyrocketed.