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Your Rights and Mobile Fingerprinting. Network for Police Monitoring, 28.1.13.

01 March 2013

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In late January the Metropolitan Police became the twenty-fifth police force in the UK to begin using mobile fingerprint scanners, which allow officers in the street to check prints against the Police National Computer database. Police using the scanners can take prints in the street, without placing the individual under arrest, if they “reasonably suspect” they have committed a crime. The Network for Police Monitoring says the mobile scanners “could pose a serious threat to civil rights” and have published this guide which is available on their website: link

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