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Division 2.10.1 Development and background of SIRPIT (SIRENE Picture Transfer)

United Kingdom

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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.