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Nordic fingerprint database

01 July 1997

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A network of fingerprint databases, covering Norway, Denmark, Sweden and Finland, is to be created by the US company, Printrak International. A contract, worth US $1.8 million, has been signed between the company and Norway's National Bureau of Crime Investigation. Printrack "supplies biometric identification systems used primarily in law enforcement applications such as welfare and immigration control. It [also] provides networked fingerprint, photo imaging and automated records management systems..." Printrack, who installed fingerprint equipment for the Belgian Service d'Appui Policier in 1991 has also won a $1.7 million contract for an updated automatic Belgian system with a capacity of five million prints.

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