The PDS Digital Fingerprint Capability (DFC), offers policing a state-of-the-art digital fingerprint capability, hosted on PDS Xchange– a secure, national, cloud-based platform, powered by Amazon Web Services (AWS).
How it works
The capability provides an end-to-end digital suite of tools that integrates with key policing technology and infrastructure used for fingerprints.
Benefits
- Access to more than 8.4 million digital fingerprint records, through DFC integration with Home Office Biometrics (HOB) IDENT 1 database.
- Fast tracks hits on fingerprints to support criminal investigations and investigators in real-time. This is fully enabled by the cloud-technology of PDS Xchange.
- Enables processing efficiencies and reduced data backlogs for investigations (equating to around £6.5m per year).
- Saves time, estimated to be around 3 days on average per case, based on operational crime scene submission and allocation of fingerprint evidence.
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Learn more about member benefits on our dedicated Members page.
What we need
- User access requirements.
- Stakeholder contacts for onboarding and support.
- Agreement to national data usage protocols.
What you get
- The capability can be accessed from different digital devices, via a web browser and an app.
- Sends fingerprint marks and crime scene images rapidly and digitally (within seconds of capture), to a force’s Fingerprint Bureau.
- Evaluation, comparison and identification of fingerprint matches, and recording of the analyses of national data sets.
- Safe and secure access to fingerprint data in a fully compliant and validated way.
- Automated digital workflows, driven by service-level-agreements, that work to appropriate compliance standards for data retention and deletion (including the Forensic Science Regulator’s code of practice).
