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Olympic chiefs fight crime with high-tech tricks

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By Pia Heikkila on 14 February 2002 16:40

NEWS The police in Salt Lake City are helping the Winter Olympic officials to fight crime with facial recognition and finger print scanners. The system, called Ibis, can take pictures of potential troublemakers remotely and compare the picture with an existing police database of criminals. It can also match the criminal's fingerprints across centralised system in the whole of US. The police in Salt Lake City has six Ibis terminals at its disposal. The technology is developed by Cognet Systems.

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