NSW Police has extended its contract with electronic security organization IDEMIA to guidance 142 LiveScan biometric scanners utilised in police stations throughout the state.
IDEMIA on Tuesday stated it experienced secured a 6-calendar year contract extension with Australia’s premier police power worth $four million to continue on to guidance and preserve the LiveScan option.
LiveScan is a static biometric device that makes it possible for officers to seize fingerprints in a digitised structure and transfer them to the national automated fingerprint identification procedure (NAFIS).
NAFIS, which is operated by the Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission, is also supported by IDEMIA.
NSW Police has been working with the LiveScan technologies, which is also utilised in Victoria, Queensland and the NT, for at minimum the final 20 several years.
LiveScan is supported by IDEMIA’s “proprietary fingerprint algorithm and workflow program to enhance the process of booking criminals and recording of biometric data”.
But the NSW Police is ever more working with NEC smartphone-appropriate fingerprint scanners, which can be utilised by officers when on the defeat.
The devices are deemed a “considerable” enhancement to non-moveable fingerprint scanning devices like Livescan.
IDEMIA’s Asia Pacifc president and senior vice president for public security and identity stated the contract extension strengthens the company’s two-decade partnership with NSW Police.
“This collaboration proves IDEMIA’s ability to deliver essential guidance and upkeep when it will come to integrating various biometrics technologies to enhance national security and guidance productive police expert services,” he stated.
“It is a great honour to be supporting the most important police organisation in Australia.”