Schlagwort: SIRENE
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Schengen Information System: Largest European police database now with Ireland
Presumably because of the Corona pandemic, queries to Europe’s largest wanted persons database have dropped drastically. Irish authorities now also participate in the system, but are only allowed to process about a third of the wanted persons entered there. On Monday, Ireland joined the Schengen Information System (SIS II). This makes the Republic a participant […]
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Schengen Information System: Fingerprint matching now obligatory throughout the EU
For two years now, the largest European police database has had a technique for cross-checking dactyloscopic data. The proportion of false hits is said to be in the per mille range. A comparable German system contains data records on 5.3 million persons. In 2013, the EU Commission completed years of work on upgrading the Schengen […]
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Advertising for police databases: Germany wants „European Data Quality Day“
Alerts in the Schengen Information System are increasing significantly every year, entries in Europol databases are also continuing to grow. The German government now wants to use video messages and giveaways to promote the acceptance of the largest European police database. The German EU Council Presidency wants to introduce a „European Data Quality Day“ (EDQD) […]
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New investigative tools: German police receives 78 million euros for Schengen Information System
Three new EU regulations significantly expand the possibilities of the largest European police database. Four different biometric data can now be entered in SIS II. The number of storages and searches is once again increasing significantly. German authorities are among the power users. The storage of data in the Schengen Information System (SIS II) continues […]