New Delhi: A national fingerprints database&nbsp;of nearly 30 lakh convicts and arrested criminals will be&nbsp;created by the government soon for speedy identification of&nbsp;offenders and for expediting ongoing probes.
The database of convicts and crime offenders will be set&nbsp;up by the Home Ministry by collating records from all the&nbsp;states and union territories.&nbsp;
Currently, the Central Finger Print Bureau (CPFB) has&nbsp;data of over 9.7 lakh fingerprint records of convicted or&nbsp;arrested persons in digitised form. However, there are around&nbsp;20 lakh fingerprint records with fingerprint bureaus of states&nbsp;and union territories which are yet to be linked to the&nbsp;central database.
"We have now decided to integrate the records of the&nbsp;state agencies and make them part of the national database.&nbsp;The National Informatics Centre is creating a 'cloud' for this&nbsp;integration," a Home Ministry official said.
The integration of all data at CPFB would facilitate&nbsp;police and investigators anywhere in the country get finger&nbsp;print data of any criminal on real time basis.&nbsp;
As of now, investigators send fingerprints lifted from a&nbsp;crime scene to the state finger print bureau for matching. If&nbsp;there is no match, the prints are then sent to the CPFB and&nbsp;fingerprint bureaus of other states.
"It is a very time consuming process and that is why we&nbsp;want to make it a real time information gathering database,"&nbsp;the official said.&nbsp;
Among all states, Gujarat has the largest database of&nbsp;fingerprints with nearly 12 lakh images, while Andhra Pradesh&nbsp;has 5.3 lakh and Madhya Pradesh 3 lakh records.&nbsp;
Besides helping to track absconding criminals, the&nbsp;database will be beneficial to police in identifying bodies,&nbsp;which helps in building leads and establishing motives behind&nbsp;the crime.
The Home Ministry also plans to integrate the fingerprint&nbsp;database with other biometric techniques like digital images,&nbsp;palm prints and auxiliary biometric like Iris records in&nbsp;future.

A national fingerprints database&nbsp;of nearly 30 lakh convicts and arrested criminals will be&nbsp;created by the government soon for speedy identification of&nbsp;offenders and for expediting ongoing probes

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