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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