‘Access to Aadhaar database will help solve cases faster’

‘Access to Aadhaar database will help solve cases faster’

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  1. National crime Records Bureau (NCRB) requested the government to provide limited access to Aadhar database.

Important facts

2. In India fingerprint experts are able to visit just 1% of all registered cases.

3. The reason is many states do not have adequate fingerprint cadre strength nor do they have the proper equipment.

4. This led to demand for limited access to access to aadhar database which helps

  • Investigating agencies in conducting probe into inter-State criminals more effectively and timely with the help of fingerprint.
  • 80%-85% of the criminals are first time offenders, who are not in police records. Aadhar data will help to nab criminals by tallying the collected fingerprints.
  • To identify the unidentified body recovered by police and handed over to their relatives

5. Secondly, NCRB demanded Ministry of Home Affairs to modernise all the State Finger Print Bureaus so that experts could at least visit 10% of the scenes of crime.

6. Thirdly, NCRB demanded the amendment to the Identification of Prisoners Act, 1920, so that other modern biometrics such as iris, veins, signature and voice could also be captured.

7. Fourthly, NCRB emphasised the need for National Automated Fingerprint Identification System (NAFIS).

  • Current Automated Fingerprint Identification System (AFIS) which was developed in 1992, has only 11.5 lakh fingerprint database.
  • When state database is included it reach to a tally of 50 lakhs

8. In first phase NAFIS can be linked to 850-odd police district headquarters and commissionerates from where a search query could be sent to the National Database

  • FBI has 50-million fingerprint database.

9. In second phase NAFIS can be linked to 15600 police station across the country so that a police constable on patrolling duty, or at a naaka can send the query and check the incidents of any suspect.

10. In third stage when database is ready, Artificial Intelligence can be used as a data analytic tools by which one can analyse the data and see whether an offender has a criminal record in other states too.

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