Tag: INPOL

  • German Criminal Police maintains arrest warrants despite Interpol warning about political persecution

    German Criminal Police maintains arrest warrants despite Interpol warning about political persecution

    After the detention of critical authors and journalists, Interpol came under criticism. All arrest warrants should be reviewed retroactively for possible political persecution. German authorities promised to check incoming warrants more strictly. Little has happened since then. In police investigations,…

  • More face recognition at the German Federal Criminal Police

    More face recognition at the German Federal Criminal Police

    The German Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) is expanding its capabilities for biometric face recognition. For this purpose, the performance of the central face recognition system (GES), with which the BKA has been able to search its databases since 2008,…

  • EU adds facial recognition capabilities to police databases

    EU adds facial recognition capabilities to police databases

    Last week, the European Commission published its proposal to recast the EURODAC Regulation, which includes plans for longer storage periods, an expansion of data categories and comparison capabilities, and mandatory fingerprinting and photographing. To date, EURODAC has been used for…