A new software tool will enable police forces in England and Wales to search a national biometric database of palm prints collected at crime scenes by forensics investigators. Palm prints, which ...

Forces will be able to search for matches of scene-of-crime prints A new software tool will allow police forces in England and Wales to search a national biometric database of palm prints collected at ...

Police have high hopes a new forensic database could help crack some cold cases. Next month, the RCMP will expand its fingerprint database to include palm prints. Palms contain just as much unique ...

Police forces across England and Wales can now search a central computer database to see if fingerprints match those of a known criminal. The National Automated Fingerprints Identification System ...

Police have been using computers to compare fingerprints since Starsky and Hutch were still on the beat. But for most of the two decades since a fingerprint system was installed in San Francisco, ...

Police in England and Wales have completed deployment of a searchable palm-print identification system that over the past two weeks has already matched hundreds of prints with potential suspects, ...

Prisons across the United States are reportedly building biometric databases that include voice recordings of incarcerated people, according to The Intercept. The report cites contracting documents ...

The effectiveness of DNA testing and searches of the national DNA database is well-known. Over the last three decades, 137 wrongly convicted people were exonerated through DNA database “hits,” which ...

A new software tool will enable police forces in England and Wales to search a national biometric database of palm prints collected at crime scenes by forensics investigators. Palm prints, which ...