News about fingerprinting
  • Crimtrac fingers biometrics for background checks

    Australian government agency, Crimtrac, has proposed tying fingerprints to passports and drivers licenses in an effort to reduce false identification for background checks.

  • Biometrics sweep NSW gaols

    The NSW Department of Corrective Services will implement mandatory iris scanning and fingerprinting across its 32 prisons to help verify visitor identities.

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    Busted: the NSW Police crime fighting toolkit

    NSW Police will have access to a new forensic information database within nine months along with a suite of centralised records management and field imaging systems.

  • Interpol fingers Aust for poor support

    An Interpol chief has scolded Australian law enforcement for contributing "almost nothing" to the global fingerprint database used by 100 countries to track criminals across the world.

  • ID in 90 seconds: CrimTrac's database goes mobile

    State police in collaboration with CrimTrac are trialling mobile identification of persons of interest by using mobile networks to transmit information and photos to a device within 90 seconds of a fingerprint scan.

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