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The database will lead to faster identification of offenders and expediting ongoing investigations

A national fingerprints database of nearly three million convicts and arrested criminals will soon be created by the government for speedy identification of offenders and expediting ongoing investigations.

The database of convicts and crime offenders will be set up by the home ministry by collating records from all the states and union territories.

Currently, the Central Finger Print Bureau (CPFB) has data of over 970,000 fingerprint records of convicted or arrested persons in digitised form. However, there are around two million fingerprint records with fingerprint bureaus of states and union territories which are yet to be linked to the central database.

“We have now decided to integrate the records of the state agencies and make them part of the national database. The National Informatics Centre (NIC) is creating a ‘cloud’ for this integration,” a home ministry official said.

The integration of all data at CPFB would facilitate police and investigators anywhere in the country get finger print data of any criminal on real time basis. As of now, investigators send fingerprints lifted from a crime scene to the state finger print bureau for matching. If there is no match, the prints are then sent to the CPFB and fingerprint bureaus of other states. “It is a very time consuming process and that is why we want to make it a real time information gathering database,” the official said.

Among the states, Gujarat has the largest database of fingerprints with nearly 1.2 million images, while Andhra Pradesh has 530,000 and Madhya Pradesh 300,000 records. Besides helping to track absconding criminals, the database will be beneficial to police in identifying bodies, which helps in building leads and establishing motives behind the crime.

The home ministry also plans to integrate the fingerprint database with other biometric techniques like digital images, palm prints and auxiliary biometric like Iris records in future.

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Quelle/Source: Livemint, 23.08.2015

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