6
SATURDAY, AUGUST 27, 1988
AND WITH THE TENDERING
PROCEDURES
NOW GOING AHEAD FOR THE BE PARTLY ACCOMMODATED IN SELECTION OF A SUITABLE SYSTEM THAT WILL
BRUCE THE NEW POLICE HEADQUARTERS BUILDING NOW UNDER CONSTRUCTION, MR FERGUSON, SENIOR STAFF OFFICER OF IDENTIFICATION BUREAU, SAID: +IT NOW THAT THE REAL WORK STARTS.
IS
ERA
+THIS IS THE MOST IMPORTANT PROJECT THE IDENTIFICATION BUREAU HAS EVER BEEN TASKED WITH IMPLEMENTING AND SEES US ENTERING A NEW IN FINGERPRINT TECHNOLOGY.
+I AM ABSOLUTELY DELIGHTED THAT FUNDING IS NOW AVAILABLE.+
THE FINGERPRINT COMPUTER WILL BE IN THE NEW COMPUTER POLICE HEADQUARTERS EXTENSION BUILDING AND THE WORK STATIONS INSTALLED IN THE BUREAU AT MAY HOUSE.
SUITE IN WILL BE
SYSTEMS HAD
MR FERGUSON SAID PROGRESS IN FINGERPRINT COMPUTER BEEN UNDER SCRUTINY SINCE THEY FIRST BECAME AVAILABLE IN 1976.
TODAY BEARS
LITTLE RESEMBLANCE
WHAT THE
+TECHNOLOGY
TO AVAILABLE THEN. ALTHOUGH THE BASIC TECHNICAL ASPECTS MAY BE THERE HAS BEEN CONTINUAL RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT OVER THE YEARS.
WAS
SAME
ΤΟ A STAGE AND SINCE THEN WE AND FINANCIAL PROCEDURES TO
+IN 1985-86 WE DECIDED THAT SYSTEMS HAD DEVELOPED THAT COULD BE MOST SUITABLE FOR USE IN HONG KONG HAVE BEEN GOING THROUGH THE GOVERNMENT PROCURE A SYSTEM.+
THE POLICE HOLD THE FINGERPRINT RECORDS OF SOME 600,000 THE CONVICTED PERSONS AND THE FIRST PHASE OF THE PROJECT WILL INVOLVE
SCENE OF CRIME CONVERSION OF 180,000
FINGERPRINT RECORDS ΤΟ THE COMPUTER SYSTEM.
IT IS ANTICIPATED THAT PHASE ONE WILL BE OPERATIONAL BY
ALL MID-1990 AND WITH APPROVAL AND FURTHER FUNDING
BB
COMPUTERISED BY MID-1992.
RECORDS WILL
+SINCE WE ARE CARRYING OUT THE MR FERGUSON ADDED:
CONVERSION PROCEDURES WILL PROGRAMME OURSELVES MUCH OF OUR TRAINING IN THE NEW
VERY MUCH ON TAKE PLACE DURING THE CONVERSION AND WILL THEREFORE BE THE JOB TRAINING.
TECHNIQUES NOW IN SCENES OF CRIME, WILL OF THE BUREAU
+THE COMPUTERISED SYSTEM, COUPLED WITH NEW USE IN DEVELOPING AND RECOVERING PRINTS FROM RESULT IN A SIGNIFICANT IMPROVEMENT IN THE EFFICIENCY AND IN CRIME DETECTION. +
/MR DAVE