National Automated Fingerprint Identification System

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Recently, the Centre has revised the procedure for the Foreigners Identification Portal (FIP) of the National Automated Fingerprint Identification System (NAFIS) and asked states/UTs to use fingerprint scanners available in districts under districts police module (DPM) of Immigration Visa Foreigner Registration Tracking system (IVFRT).

About National Automated Fingerprint Identification System

• It is a pan-India searchable database of crime and criminal-related fingerprints. 
• Objective: To collect fingerprint data of all the criminals from all the states and the Union Territories.
• It will enable law enforcement agencies to upload, trace and retrieve information from the database 24×7 in real-time.
• It is managed by the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) at the Central fingerprint bureau, based in New Delhi.
• With NAFIS, it is possible to locate a person of interest in a matter of minutes and connect that individual’s name to any active warrants, warnings, or information about related criminal conduct stored in other police information reference systems.

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Working of NAFIS

• It assigns a unique 10-digit National Fingerprint Number for each criminal, based on biometrics.
• The unique ID will be used for a lifetime of an offender. Different crimes registered under different FIRs will be logged as incidents belonging to the same National Fingerprint Number.
• The first two digits of the ID will be the state code of the state where the criminal is registered, followed by a sequence number.
• The state partition will have IDs belonging to a state. 
• Apart from this, a digital record will be added as storage to match the fingerprints in the future.

National Automated Fingerprint Identification System FAQs

Q1: Which ministry is NAFIS under?

Ans: Ministry of Home Affairs

Q2: What is the full form of NCRB?

Ans: NATIONAL CRIME RECORDS BUREAU

Source: IE