National Automated Fingerprint Identification System Latest News
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.
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
Last updated on June, 2026
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