Handheld fingerprint readers will be rolled out to police across the UK from 2010 as part of the Project Midas scheme, allowing officers to perform on the spot ID checks without having to take suspects back to the station.
The project will initially allow each force to ID suspects on the move by providing mobile access to the 7.5 million fingerprint scans held on the police's Ident1 biometric database.
Speaking at Biometrics Conference 2008 yesterday, Geoff Whitaker, CTO of biometrics at the National Policing Improvement Agency (NPIA), said other biometrics such as facial scans and the ability to access mug shots of suspects on the handheld scanners could be added at a later date.
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