Key points
- Police investigators have gained the ability to read graphical images of fingerprints from electronic media of biometric ID documents of citizens to search for missing persons.
- Data can be obtained from a Ukrainian citizen’s ID card and a biometric foreign passport – the same fingerprints that the person provided when applying for the document.
- The obtained fingerprints are placed in the National Police and Ministry of Internal Affairs records and automatically checked for matches with fingerprints extracted during work with unidentified bodies.
- The mechanism only applies to biometric documents with an electronic chip – old-style passports and foreign passports are not suitable for this purpose.
Police investigators have obtained the ability to read graphical images of fingerprints from electronic media embedded in biometric ID documents of Ukrainian citizens to search for missing persons under special circumstances.
Currently, law enforcement agencies are equipped with special software and technical complexes that allow reading information from electronic chips embedded in documents. Such complexes have already been distributed among the main departments of the National Police in all regions of Ukraine.
– National Police of Ukraine.
Graphical images of fingerprints can be obtained from a Ukrainian citizen’s ID card and a passport for traveling abroad – a biometric foreign passport. This refers to the same images that the person provided when applying for the relevant document.
The obtained data is placed in the relevant records of the National Police and the Ministry of Internal Affairs and automatically checked for possible matches with fingerprints extracted during work with unidentified bodies. This increases the effectiveness and speed of identification.
The mechanism applies exclusively to biometric documents with an electronic information carrier. Passports of a Ukrainian citizen in the form of a booklet and foreign passports of the old model do not contain an electronic chip, so they cannot be used to obtain fingerprints.
Investigators can contact the relatives of missing persons with a request to provide ID documents for examination and reading. Relatives can also independently apply to the investigator with a request.
After examining and reading the necessary information, the ID document is immediately returned to the family.
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