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| Subject: OZschwitz slave pen: Asylum-seekers and their children to go on criminal database which includes fingerprinting Sat Nov 08, 2008 5:04 pm | |
| ASYLUM-SEEKERS and their teenage children will be included in a criminal database, with their fingerprints to be rolled into the national system by mid-2009.
The plan will give the National Automated Fingerprint Identification System (NAFIS) access to the Immigration Department's database of about 3000 detainee fingerprints.
About 1000 of the prints would belong to asylum-seekers aged 15 and older.
The remainder are visa overstayers, foreign fishermen and other "unauthorised" residents. Under the Migration Act, no one younger than 15 is allowed to be fingerprinted.
Police investigating a crime can seek information, including name, address and immigration history, about a current or former detainee from the department if they score a "hit" on the database, which holds 4.2 million sets of fingerprints. It is managed by the national criminal information agency, CrimTrac.
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