HDR (Lithuania)
Type: Law Enforcement
Technical information:
| Full name | Habitoscopic Data Register |
|---|---|
| Country | Lithuania |
| Contents | Facial Images |
| Images | 400,000 |
| Individuals | 185,000 |
| Runs database software | |
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Developers and Users:
| Developed by | Ministry of Interior (Lithuania) |
|---|---|
| Owning institution | Ministry of Interior (Lithuania) |
| Custodian institution | Ministry of Interior (Lithuania) |
Description[edit | ]
Summary of current situation[edit | ]
FR in relation to criminal investigations has been in use in Lithuania since 07.11.2019. Preparations for FR implementation started in 2013, when the Order of the Minister of Interior No 1V-440 "Regulations of the Habitoscopic Data Register" was adopted and the Habitoscopic data register was established. The implementation took place between November 2018 and November 2019 in a project called "Modernizing Habitoscopic Data Register using Advanced Personal Face Recognition and Personal Search Engine Identification Technology" conducted by the Information Technology and Communications Department under the Ministry of Interior. The next step in FR work will be the implementation of standards ISO/IEC 19794-5 and ISO/IEC FDIS 39794-5.
A FR search capability has been introduced in the Habitoscopic Data Register (HDR), which is the only system used for FR. The HDR stores images of suspects, convicts and arrested persons registered in HDR, and images of wanted persons, unidentified dead bodies and unidentified helpless persons registered in a database known as the Register of wanted persons, unidentified corpses and unidentified helpless persons (RPSUCUHP). A s of December 2020, the HDR contains more than 400 000 facial images and the number of individuals registered in HDR is approximately 185 000.
FR is used for crime prevention and forensic examination as well as in the identification of wanted, missing and unidentified persons. FR searches can be performed by more than 500 police officers and forensic experts, to whom access to HDR FR module has been granted. As the implementation is very recent, FR searches are not yet performed routinely and hence, the current user experience is limited. Moreover, live facial recognition searches are not performed in Lithuania at the present time.
Regarding facial images of civil origin (i.e. from various document proceedings), it is permissible for law enforcement to use such images for manual 1:1 comparisons or 1:N searches against HDR. An automated search capability with the current infrastructure is neither permitted nor technically possible within civil databases.1
References
- ^ "Summary Report of the project “Towards the European Level Exchange of Facial Images” (TELEFI)". (2021) <https://www.telefi-project.eu/sites/default/files/TELEFI_SummaryReport.pdf> Accessed: 2021-03-12