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Centre says it will aid law enforcement
The Automated Facial Recognition System (AFRS) will not violate privacy of citizens and is only being developed to help the law enforcement agencies to identify criminals, missing children and unidentified bodies in a scientific and speedy manner, a senior government official said on Thursday. The AFRS, being implemented by the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB), is a component of the Crime and Criminal Tracking Network and Systems (CCTNS), a national database of crimes and criminals. An official said the database would be accessible only to law enforcement agencies. At present, there are 7.71 lakh cases of missing persons in the CCTNS database that includes 98,000 children, the official said. “This software will be used only in respect of such persons who figure on the CCTNS data base — accused persons, prisoners, missing persons, unidentified dead persons – and is not going to be used on any other database,” the official said. The AFRS will add another information layer to investigation by allowing matching photograph of suspect or missing person with the database of CCTNS. “This is already done manually,” the official said.
