Conference of Directors of Fingerprint Bureaux was organized at HPA, Madhuban

Conference of Directors of Fingerprint Bureaux was organized at HPA, Madhuban



Madhuban,
A two days Conference of Directors of Fingerprint Bureaux was organized at HPA, Madhuban, Karnal, Haryana by National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) in collaboration with Haryana Police. It was inaugurated on 30th March 2017 by the Chief Guest Shri Yashpal Singhal, IPS, DG (Prisons), Haryana. On this occasion DGP/Haryana Dr. K.P. Singh, IPS and Sh. K.K. Sindhu, IPS, DG Police Complex Madhuban were also present.

Sh.K.K.Mishra, ADGP/Director, SCRB, Madhuban welcomed the delegates to HPA and thanked for the opportunity given to host Conference.

The chief Guest in his address welcomed all the delegates to the land of Lord Krishna. He acknowledged that conference is a forum to learn new technology, innovations and to build bridges with other experts. He also emphasized the need for Research and development, to develop new technology, remote query processing, so that this great science takes a leap forward than DNA. He said aadhar may be linked for detecting dead bodies through finger print and help jail and judiciary through fingerprints. He insisted that there is urgent need to amend Identification of Prisoners Act. He congratulated NCRB in implementing CCTNS project which will revolutionize police service to the nation. 

Dr. Ish Kumar, IPS, Director, NCRB in his speech quoted the importance of Fingerprints and said it was a fool-proof, user friendly, cost effective identification tool. He said CFPB is a national repository having one million data but data from all States need to come for proper investigation. He also mentioned that AFIS is essential and requested all States to procure AFIS and get modernized. He referred to man power shortage. He stated ICJS would link all organizations including FSLs. He said that till Identification of Prisoners Act is not amended States can follow example of West Bengal and amend State laws.

In the Conference representatives of 23 States/UTs, senior Police officers, research scholars, industry participated in the two day conference.  Students from various Universities presented their research papers on latest developments in the field of Fin gerprints. Presentations on AFIS-CCTNS & Training, equipment and R&D, AMBIS and software named RUVIS were made by Maharastra FPB, NCRB, Delhi FPB, & OEM.