Thursday, March 23, 2006

British Police Get Palm Print Database

Andy McCue writes on C|Net News:

A new software tool will enable police forces in England and Wales to search a national biometric database of palm prints collected at crime scenes by forensics investigators.

Palm prints, which police claim can account for a fifth of all crime scene marks, have been collected by forensics officers for more than two years, but it is only now that they can be automatically searched for matches against a national database.

More here.

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