The Belgian Police Department’s legal identification division is rolling out a new automated palm print and fingerprint identification system (APFIS), designed to provide more precise results and boost detection times.
The new system can store finger and palm print trace images at 1,000 pixels per inch (ppi) resolution and allows traces to be examined in comparison with flat or rolled fingerprints as well as palm prints.
Cogent Systems’ new APFIS system will replace an earlier version installed ten years ago. Supply and integration services are being managed by Steria Benelux.
“This new identification system will further increase the Belgian Police’s crime-solving capacity,” said a police statement.
“It will offer increased search precision, significantly improved response times, a palm print search option and other innovative functions as well. For example, the new system will offer 90 per cent precision in finger and palm print trace searches and up to 99.9 per cent precision in fingerprint searches.”
It will also allow a fast, high-quality exchange of dactyloscopic data with Interpol and other countries covered by the Prüm Treaty.