The New Yorker Festival | The Super-Recognizers: The British Detectives Who Never Forget a Face

With Mick Neville, Eliot Porritt, Richard Russell, and Alison Young. Moderated by Patrick Radden Keefe.

Mick Neville recently retired as a detective chief inspector based at Scotland Yard, in London. He founded and headed the Central Forensic Image Team, which includes the super-recognizer unit.

Eliot Porritt is a detective sergeant in the super-recognizer unit at the Metropolitan Police Service, in London.

Richard Russell is an associate professor of psychology at Gettysburg College. His research focusses on the way people read health, beauty, sex, and age in a face.

Alison Young is a police officer in the criminal-investigation department in Tower Hamlets, in London’s Metropolitan Police Service.

Patrick Radden Keefe has been contributing to The New Yorker since 2006. He is the author of two books: “The Snakehead: An Epic Tale of the Chinatown Underworld and the American Dream,” which grew out of an article he published in the magazine, and “Chatter: Uncovering the Echelon Surveillance Network and the Secret World of Global Eavesdropping.” “A Loaded Gun,” his New Yorker story about the mass shooter Amy Bishop, received a National Magazine Award for feature writing in 2014.