Database part of central police biometric technology programme
The police palmprint database has been rolled out to forces across UK by the Police IT Organisation (Pito).
Palm prints account for 20 per cent of marks left at crime scenes and retrieved prints can now be searched nationally.
The search capacity is the first major extension of Pito's Ident1 biometric technology platform, which includes the National Automated Fingerprint Identification System.
Humberside Police has made 20 successful palm matches since it started using the system at the start of the month.
Richard Gallagher, Head of Fingerprint Bureau at Humberside, said: 'We would not have been able to achieve these matches without the new palms tool as we did not have the associated finger marks to go on in each case.'
The police palmprint database has been rolled out to forces across UK by the Police IT Organisation (Pito).
Palm prints account for 20 per cent of marks left at crime scenes and retrieved prints can now be searched nationally.
The search capacity is the first major extension of Pito's Ident1 biometric technology platform, which includes the National Automated Fingerprint Identification System.
Humberside Police has made 20 successful palm matches since it started using the system at the start of the month.
Richard Gallagher, Head of Fingerprint Bureau at Humberside, said: 'We would not have been able to achieve these matches without the new palms tool as we did not have the associated finger marks to go on in each case.'
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