Digital forensics platform to help forces exchange EU fingerprint data

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Digital forensics platform to help forces exchange EU fingerprint data

Capability to be housed within the National Crime Agency as national contact point with EU states.

Date - 14th April 2022
By - Gary Mason

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The UK International Crime Bureau (UKICB) will be the first agency in the UK to benefit from a new digital capability to enable it to retrieve fingerprints quickly from EU Schengen countries as part of the Prüm arrangements. The arrangements...

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