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The police are computerising fingerprint data of offenders, writes V.S. Palaniappan 
MAKING INVESTIGATIONS EASY: The Deputy Inspector General of Police, Coimbatore Range, Seema Agrawal, and the Superintendent of Police, Coimbatore Rural, G. Karthikeyan (in uniform) at the data bank at the District Police Office on Friday. — To make investigations easier which would act as a deterrent to the criminal elements, the Coimbatore Rural Police have computerised the data bank of finger prints and photographs of the offenders. The Deputy Inspector-General of Police, Coimbatore Range, Seema Agrawal and Superintendent of Police, Coimbatore Rural Police, G. Karthikeyan commissioned the computerised data bank of fingerprints and photographs of the offenders. The police officers in every station and every sub-division are now feeding the fingeprints and photographs of the habitual offenders, ex-convicts, notorious offenders and history sheeters into the data bank. The software used for the databank would enable instant verification i.e., tallying the print lifted from a scene of crime and comparing it with the finger prints available. Besides, it would also help to compare the photographs and computer-generated images prepared, based on the description given by the victims. Such a quick measure of tracing the accused would help the police speedily track offenders down. Only instant reactions would fetch the desired results in grave crime cases. Such a measure would automatically deter criminals because of the fear of facing the law, officials said. In addition, such investigation methods would save the man hours of the personnel in the department who are already over burdened and overstretched. In addition, the fingerprints and photographs of suspicious persons could be compiled so that even first time offenders could be tracked down easily with the help of the prints lifted from the scene of crime. Within a few seconds, as many as ten prints could be compared. To begin with, the police on Friday commenced work for feeding 30,000 prints and photographs into the computerised data bank and have planned to enhance the information by storing data from the neighbouring districts in a phased manner. Mr.Karthikeyan said that during the current year alone 16 theft cases were resolved with the help of fingerprint verification. Of the 1,050 cases of theft and robbery reported in the district during the last ten months resulting in loss of properties worth over Rs 4.65 crore, so far Rs 4.15 crore worth of properties had been recovered, registering 90 per cent recovery.
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