Namibian Police Force deploy automatic facial and fingerprint identification system

Namibian Police Force deploy automatic facial and fingerprint identification system
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Deployment Status	Ongoing
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Events	* uses Record type Property:Has event Start (6 July 2016, Documented, , No description)
City	Windhoek
Country	Namibia
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Technology Deployed	N-ABIS Orion (ABIS)
Information Certainty	Documented
Primary sources	1
Datasets Used	N-ABIS Orion (Dataset)
Deployment Type	Surveillance, Criminal investigations
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managed by	Namibian Police Force
used by	Namibian Police Force
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Summary	In 2016, Namibian Police Force became one of the first police forces in Southern Africa to launch an automated fingerprinting and facial recognition system (N-ABIS). So far the system has been used only for the issuance of police certificates. However the presence of the system could suggest wider usage, in particular as the police also use a network of surveillance cameras in Windhoek.

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Information Certainty: Documented

Deployment Purpose: Criminal investigations, Surveillance

Summary
In 2016, Namibian Police Force became one of the first police forces in Southern Africa to launch an automated fingerprinting and facial recognition system (N-ABIS). So far the system has been used only for the issuance of police certificates. However the presence of the system could suggest wider usage, in particular as the police also use a network of surveillance cameras in Windhoek.

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Products and Institutions:

Product Deployed	N-ABIS Orion (ABIS)
Institutions ⠉	Orion Technologies
Datasets	N-ABIS Orion (Dataset)
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Status and Events:

Status	Ongoing
Events	Start (6 July 2016, Documented, , No description)
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Involved Entities
Managed by	Namibian Police Force
Used by	Namibian Police Force

Location:

City	Windhoek
Country ⠉	Namibia

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Description

The system was provided by Orion Technologies.

N-ABIS was developed at a cost of N$40 million over a period of two years by Orion Technologies and Engineering Systems Africa (Otesa), a Namibian company 1

It has resulted in a database of fingerprints and facial images.

N-ABIS is capable of capturing live scans of fingerprints and also uses facial recognition, comparing it in seconds against millions of scans in the database, said police Inspector-General Sebastian Ndeitunga. “The waiting for conduct certificates for months is now history, as it will now take only two weeks to produce a police conduct certificate,” he said. Ndeitunga explained that the system was largely procured to address the public outcry on the delay in obtaining certificates of conduct from the police and obtaining criminal records on outstanding criminal cases for court proceedings [CiteRef::namibianPoliceLauchAutomated2016]]

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