Police in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu are about to upgrade their fingerprint identification capabilities. The Tamil Nadu Fingerprint Bureau is preparing to implement version 7 of the Fingerprint Analysis Tracking System, or FACTS, to state police stations.
This will connect state police to the country’s Crime and Criminal Tracking Network and Systems (CCTNS), which integrates data from 14,000 police stations across India. That capability should significantly improve police authorities’ capability of matching criminal data to fingerprint biometrics. The new software will also expand the number of biometric records that can be stored; an official with the State Crime Records Bureau reportedly told The New Indian Express that capacity will rise from 400,000 imprints to 6,000,000. The system will start rolling out in May and should be in place in every state police station by the end of October, according to the same official.
It’s a major upgrade of state authorities’ biometric capabilities in a country increasingly familiar with the technology, given its growing prominence in society via the Aadhaar citizen ID program. And given that the national government is seeking to open Aadhaar data to security authorities, such capabilities could be expanded much more dramatically in the months and years to come.
Source: The New Indian Express
—
April 22, 2016 – by Alex Perala
Follow Us