Police to carry out on-the-spot fingerprinting even for minor traffic offenses

Anna Edwards
Mail Online
August 8, 2011

Police are now armed with a device that can scan fingerprints so they can correctly identify suspects who lie about their details.

In what sounds like something out of George Orwell’s dystopia 1984, suspects can now be finger printed in the street thanks to the new hand-held police gadget.

The mobile identification service scans a print, then checks it by trawling through a national database for the details.

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This article was posted: Monday, August 8, 2011 at 2:22 pm

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