Division 2.9.1 Development and background of Sirpit (Sirene Picture Transfer)

Sirene bureaux should be able to exchange fingerprints and pictures for identification purposes.

The Sirpit procedure makes it possible, when there is some doubt about the identity of a discovered person, to exchange pictures and fingerprints quickly and electronically between Sirene bureaux, so that a comparison can be made between the fingerprints and pictures of the discovered person and those of the person regarding whom an alert was issued.

Within the framework of police cooperation, the exchange of pictures and fingerprints may also be carried out in the cases provided for by Articles 39 and 46 of the Convention Implementing the Schengen Agreement, on condition that the Sirene bureaux also handle these cases.