Botswana To Upgrade Automated Fingerprint Identification System

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The government will deploy single multi-biometric platform from Safran identity and security according to Stephen Mayhew, the publisher and co-founder of Biometrics Research Group.

Mayhew stated that Safran identity and security through its subsidiary Morpho South Africa, has won a contract with the Government of Botswana to upgrade the legacy Automated Fingerprint Identification System (AFIS) platforms into a single, multi-biometric and multi-use new-generation platform.

The Botswana Police Service (BPS) has worked with Safran Identity & Security since 1998.

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