India to Install World’s Biggest Face Recognition System to Track Criminals

New Delhi: With the tender submission date to procure the National Automated Facial Recognition System (AFRS) just 20 days away, India is closer to install the worlds largest facial recognition system to track and nab criminals. The National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB), under Home Ministry, asked for the bids on July 8 which will be closed on November 8. The winner to provide AFRS will be announced on November 8. “This is an effort in the direction of modernizing the police force, information gathering, criminal identification, verification and its dissemination among various police organizations and units across the country,” said NCRB in its 172-page document. The beneficiaries will be the Ministry of Home Affairs, NCRB and state police forces. The benefits will be “a robust system for identifying criminals, missing children /persons, unidentified dead bodies and unknown traced children/persons all over the country; a repository of photographs of criminals in the country; enhanced ability to detect crime patterns and modus operandi across the states and communicate to the state police departments for aiding in crime prevention”. With the help of the software, the State police personnel can check the suspect with the hotlist of criminals. (IANS)

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