Biometric Services Gateway

2018: Beginning of use of a system

In February, 2018 the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Great Britain announced start in the country of the mobile Biometric Services Gateway dactyloscopic system developed by department using which police officers directly on the street will be able to identify in minutes people on fingerprints.

At the first stage of implementation a system will be tested by police officers of the Western Yorkshire (West Yorkshire Police). 250 mobile fingerprint scanners worth less than 300 pounds everyone are already issued to employees (about $417). The customized application for the smartphone allowing to check fingerprints according to databases of criminals and immigrants is also provided.

In England the police began to use mobile fingerprint scanners for identification on the street

It is expected that by the end of 2018 innovation is approved by 20 more Territorial Departments of police, reported in the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the country.^[1]

Police officers will be able to use a system if people have no documents, confirming their personality if the person refuses to report the name or law enforcement authorities have bases to believe that the citizen issues himself for another.

The British authorities consider that implementation of Biometric Services Gateway will increase efficiency of police, will help to save time and costs. Before emergence of a system officers had to bring suspicious citizens to police station, and only there, using the procedure of dactyloscopy, to identify their personality. On all this could leave till 4 o'clock while on identification using a mobile system less than a minute is required.

Also in the British Ministry of Internal Affairs noted that a system will allow to identify quickly the personality in a situation when emergency medical service is required and that prints automatically are removed from devices after their check according to databases.

Meanwhile, human rights activists already stated the concern and condemned an initiative of the British authorities, having said that a system violates the rights of people to personal privacy, The Register tells.^[2]

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