Grampian Police to use biometric facial recognition to identify suspects in seconds

14 January 2003

The European Commission chooses Steria's biometrics know-how to process asylum requests and fight illegal immigration



Immigration and security issues are in the headlines more than ever with the closure of the Sangatte refugee camp. At 12pm GMT (1pm Paris time) today, the European Commission launched the EURODAC project. The purpose of the project is to process asylum requests in EU member states and other states belonging to the Dublin Convention. As part of this project, Steria, the European IT services global operator, developed a central system for fingerprint identification (based in Brussels) and a system for the electronic transmission of fingerprints in 16 European countries, to fight illegal immigration.


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Steria is supporting the non-profit association (asbl/vzw) TOEMEKA in training the mentally handicaped to use electronic voting machines.


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Biometric facial recognition has been used in the UK for some time now in the form of the CCTV systems in the largest of the UK's shopping centres.