ABIS (Croatia)

ABIS (Croatia)
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Type: Law Enforcement

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Full name	Automated Biometric Information System
Country	Croatia
Contents	Fingerprints Facial Images
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Individuals	220,000
Runs database software	Database Software (Idemia)
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Developed by	Ministry of Interior (Croatia)
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Description

The Ministry of Interior is the owner of both ABIS and the image repository of civil documents where FR is being implemented and is also the owner of the respective data. The implementation of FR in ABIS is the responsibility of FSC under the Ministry of Interior, whilst the implementation of FR in the civil system is the responsibility of the Criminal Police Directorate of the Ministry of Interior. 1

ABIS has been established using data from suspects and offenders that used to be stored in the Fingerprint database. As of January 2020, approximately 220 000 individuals are registered in the database. While the Fingerprint database was used primarily for the purpose of storing and searching fingerprints, the facial modality was added with the purchase of the ABIS system. ABIS is owned by the Ministry of Interior of Croatia and the custodian of the system is FSC. ABIS runs on software from Idemia. Since 2010, individuals providing fingerprints have also been photographed. For databasing purposes, the fingerprints have been collected on a special fingerprint card and the photographs of the individual have also been included. Thus, most of the facial images sent to FSC are in a paper format, whereas the original copies of these images are stored in a digital format in the police departments across the country where the photographs were taken. The process of populating ABIS with facial images that are digitally available within police departments across the country, is currently underway. 1

Facial images are taken as three views and will be enrolled into ABIS in JPEG format: • Frontal view facial image; • Right profile view facial image; • Left half-profile view facial image. Photographs are captured using a standard setup that involves a digital camera and special lighting. All the cameras that are in use have similar technical specifications. The quality of an image is checked by the person capturing the image (i.e. police officers and criminalistic technicians at police stations). Facial images are entered into ABIS by forensic technicians at FSC. However, in the future, when livescan systems are acquired, photographs will be automatically enrolled into the database by criminalistic technicians at police stations. Facial images will be retained in ABIS for a time period depending on the type of crime involved, ranging from 10 to 20 years. After the retention time expires, images are removed according to the law. Alongside images, biographic data such as name, surname, name of parents, date and place of birth, personal identification number, citizenship, residence address, nicknames and description of a person (e.g. height, shape of face, nose and eyes, hair colour) will be stored in ABIS for each individual. In order to avoid double entries for the same individual, biographic data is checked using an identity document (e.g. ID card). If there is no identity document available, witnesses may be asked to ascertain the identity of a given person. In addition, the police officer may verify the identity of the person by searching his/her fingerprints. It has not yet been decided whether uncontrolled images will be stored in ABIS. 1

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