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Roadside fingerprint reader piloted

Sixteen UK police forces are trialing a wireless device that will be used to fingerprint drivers they stop.

When the National Identity Register is complete these devices will be used to link into the biometric data that every person in the UK (including Children) will be compelled to provide as part of the ID cards act. When that part of the British police state is implemented the police and other government officials could compel indivduals who are not carrying their Identity Cards to verify their identity agains the national register.


In that instance this and other practices emanating from the NIR are contrary to the common law as enshrined in the Charter of Liberties and Magna Carta. Whilst abused here in the UK these are not arcane rights, they are enshrined in the constitution of the USA:-

"That no freeman ought to be taken, or imprisoned, or disseized of his freehold, liberties, or privileges, or outlawed, or exiled, or in any manner destroyed, or deprived of his life, liberty, or property, but by the judgment of his peers, or by the law of the land." ...taken word for word from Magna Carta. Of course Magna Carta was only intended to protect the liberties of the few, not the many and unfortunately for us, we have no written constitution.

Of course, if you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear.

Roadside fingerprint reader piloted

Press Association
Wednesday November 22, 2006 9:28 AM

Police trials of a hand-held electronic fingerprint reader are being launched.

Experts hope the device will save massive amounts of police time and money by allowing officers to identify suspects on the roadside without having to take them to the station.

A pilot scheme - called Project Lantern - will be used in Luton, Bedfordshire, by officers targeting motoring offences.

The gadget allows officers to search 6.5 million fingerprints archived on the National Automated Fingerprint System, with the trial aiming to give them a result within five minutes.

The Home Office's Police Information Technology Organisation (Pito) calculates it could save more than £2.2m a year.

Fingerprints can only be taken from the public voluntarily using the Lantern system because the law will have to be changed before officers can force people to give prints on the street.

Police minister Tony McNulty said: "This trial represents an important step forward in our commitment to ensuring we have an effective and efficient police service fully equipped for the challenges of modern policing.

"The new technology will speed up the time it takes for police to identify individuals at the roadside, enabling them to spend more time on the frontline and reducing any inconvenience for innocent members of the public."

The Lantern device electronically scans the index fingers and sends an encrypted wireless transmission to the central fingerprint database. It scans the database and identifies possible matches.

The other nine forces rolling out the pilot over the next two months are British Transport Police, Essex, Hertfordshire, Lancashire, the Metropolitan police, North Wales, Northamptonshire, West Midlands and West Yorkshire.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uklatest/s...232409,00.html