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UK to Expand Use of Palm Prints

A national palm print database will allow police officials the capacity to take advantage of this technology.

UNITED KINGDOM - Police forces in the United Kingdom will create a national database of palm prints as part of an upgrade in their identification systems.

The Police IT Organization (Pito) is considering developments to the current National Automated Fingerprint Identification System (Nafis) used by all police forces in England and Wales, which carries prints of convicted criminals and crime scene forensic data.

Police forces currently take palm prints but their use is limited, so a national database would be a leap forward. The organization is looking for identification services to law enforcement agencies within the UK including systems development, integration of legacy equipment and systems and installation.

The storage capacity needed for a national palm print database is considerably larger than Nafis allows and that's why the use of the palm print hasn't been greater than it is.