The National Police has launched a new mechanism for identifying missing persons. It involves the use of graphic images of fingerprints stored on electronic carriers of biometric documents of citizens of Ukraine. This was reported on the website of the National Police.
The department noted that law enforcement officers have already received special software and hardware complexes that allow them to read data from electronic chips in documents. Such equipment was transferred to the main departments of the National Police in all regions of Ukraine.
The police clarified that graphic images of fingerprints can be obtained from the ID card of a citizen of Ukraine and a biometric international passport. At the same time, passports-books and foreign documents of the old model, issued before the introduction of biometrics, do not have an electronic chip, so it is impossible to use them for this purpose.
“The introduction of new technical capabilities allows you to form a database of lifetime fingerprint data of persons who went missing under special circumstances. Subsequently, the obtained data are placed in the relevant records of the National Police of Ukraine and the Ministry of Internal Affairs and are automatically checked for possible matches with fingerprints taken during work with unidentified bodies. This significantly increases the efficiency and speed of identification of persons. After the inspection and reading of the necessary information, the ID document is immediately returned to the family», — the National Police noted.
Due to the launch of the new mechanism, investigators can contact relatives of people who went missing under special circumstances with a request to provide the missing person’s ID documents for reading graphic images of fingerprints. Relatives can also independently submit such a request to the investigator conducting the criminal proceedings.
