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Law Enforcement

Law enforcement biometrics refers to applications and biometric systems which aid law enforcement agencies. While most often fingerprints, DNA, and in some cases facial recognition, this is a wide-ranging category and can include AFIS, ABIS, mobile identification systems, criminal ID solutions, fingerprint recognition, surveillance, as well as access control systems.

 

Biometrics for banking, law enforcement, intelligence community most popular this week

Here’s a recap of the most popular biometrics industry news that appeared on BiometricUpdate.com this past week. Fingerprints This week…

 

Zicom, Biometronic to provide IriTech iris recognition products in India

Zicom Electronic Security Systems Limited has signed an agreement with Biometronic Technology Pvt. Ltd in which Zicom will distribute Biometronic’s…

 

Interpol calls on APAC authorities to make greater use of biometrics to identify terrorists

Interpol has called on Asia Pacific authorities to more effectively use biometrics in an effort to identify members of dangerous…

 

Scottish Police admit to using facial recognition software, maintaining image database

Police Scotland has admitted to using face recognition technology to identify individuals captured on CCTV cameras and from other sources,…

 

Maharashtra fair-price shops to introduce biometric identification checks to curb bootlegging

The state government of Maharashtra, India is set to implement the Aadhaar ID card biometric identification system at fair-price shops…

 

Australian law enforcement agencies want shared facial recognition database

Australian law enforcement agencies have come together to support a new plan to build a national facial recognition database that…

 

Privacy and civil rights groups outline regulations for police body cameras

A coalition of over 30 privacy and civil rights organizations, including the NAACP and the American Civil Liberties Union, have…

 

TeraDact to protect data collected by PlateSmart’s LPR solution

License plate recognition (LPR) analytic solutions firm PlateSmart announced that they will integrate TeraDact’s patented Information Identification and Presentation (IIaP)…

 

UK government seeks stronger legislation on use of foreign criminals’ biometric data

The UK government is aiming to expand the types of cases in which law enforcement can request access to biometric…

 

Australian government to invest more in biometric border controls and national biometric database

The Australian government has allocated a total of AU$450 million to increase national security to provide different agencies with more…

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