fingerprint police
Lithuanian Police Speed Up Fingerprint Recognition With Servers Based on Intel Itanium 2 Processors
White Paper Analysing fingerprint evidence from crime scenes is a crucial component of the work done by the Lithuanian Police Forensic Science Centre. Until recently, its Automated Fingerprint Identification System (AFIS) was accessed through local PCs using... [03 Jul 2008]
Fingerprints analysed on the beat
News The project, called Lantern, is intended to examine how time can be saved by officers trying to establish the identity of persons stopped on the street by enabling fingerprint and number plate checks out on the beat. [11 Jun 2008]
HP Success Story
White Paper Over the years, fingerprints have played an important role in the identification of criminals, with police forces all over the world building up large stores of fingerprint records. Little wonder, then, that automated fingerprint identification... [02 Apr 2008]
HP Case Study: Ontario, California Police Department
White Paper What Ontario has is the ability to check fingerprints on the fly, using handheld devices and wireless connectivity to link to the city's fingerprint database and potentially prove or disprove a person's identification at an incident scene. [08 Mar 2008]
Clothing recognition tech nabs armed robber
Case Study However, in one of the robberies, one of the individuals discarded a piece of paper from which the police were able to recover a fingerprint. Similar clothes were taken from the suspect's home, after police had established through the fingerprint... [13 Dec 2007]
Can biometrics secure the public's data?
Comment Fingerprint or iris recognition is being used at some organisations to enable employees to log on to the network, thus ensuring only authorised employees can access certain parts of the network. There are numerous biometrics technologies, including... [23 Nov 2007]
Businesses tackle laptop theft data security risks
News We have also just introduced fingerprint technology for USB devices and staff are only allowed to use memory sticks provided by the IT department. An exclusive investigation by silicon.com earlier this month revealed a sharp rise in the number of... [15 May 2007]
Leader: Are e-petitions good for democracy?
Leader He also let slip that the government will allow police to check every fingerprint held on the National Identity Register to try and solve crimes. Have you had an email from Tony Blair this week? If you've been involved in the fierce debate on the... [20 Feb 2007]
The Weekly Round-Up: 24.11.06
Round-Up One silicon.com reader wrote: "Heading towards a police state, cameras everywhere you turn, now fingerprint checking because you've done 31mph. Officers are being given nifty wireless gadgets which will take the fingerprints and then transmit them... [24 Nov 2006]
Police crackdown to see drivers fingerprinted
News Police forces are using handheld computers to run roadside fingerprint tests to crack down on rogue motorists who provide fake identities. Bedfordshire Police is the first of 10 forces to start fingerprint identity checks at the roadside as part of... [22 Nov 2006]
'Big Brother' listening for angry exchanges
News Pub brawls were cut by a quarter earlier this year in Yeovil, Somerset, when a fingerprint-before-you-drink scheme was unveiled. If aggressive tones are picked up an alarm signal is automatically sent to the police, who can zoom in to the location... [22 Nov 2006]
Biometrics cut pub brawls by a quarter
News A spokeswoman from Sheffield City Council told silicon.com that to implement fingerprint recognition the council would need access to the police fingerprint database - and claimed this access is not currently possible. [24 Oct 2006]
2,700 people wrongly tagged as criminals
News So far 1,500 of those who were incorrectly identified as having criminal convictions, ranging from theft to violent robbery, have successfully appealed and had to go to their local police station to undergo a fingerprint check, according to the... [22 May 2006]
Police to develop national video ID system
News The service will also make the images and information available in mobile format to police officers on the beat, along with mobile fingerprint checking capability. Pito will also develop the Ident1 biometric technology platform, which replaced the... [22 May 2006]
Leader: ID cards fight must go on
Leader Yes, until 2010 you'll have the option of declining an ID card when you renew your passport but you still have to pay for the cost of the card regardless of whether you receive it and you'll still have your fingerprint and iris scans stored in the... [31 Mar 2006]
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