FOI 670-2023 / July 2023 / Biometrics
FREEDOM OF INFORMATION REQUEST REFERENCE NO: 670-2023
I write in connection with your request for information which was received on 17th July 2023 as follows:
This is a request under the Freedom of Information Act for information regarding your force’s use of mobile fingerprint technology. Please provide the following information about your force’s use of mobile biometric technology for the periods between 1st January 2022 and today’s date; if you do not hold this information for the whole length of the period stated above, please provide it for the period starting from the date you began recording the information:
Q1. The number of times the mobile biometrics devices were used.
Q2. The following information about each search:
- which database was searched (Police [IDENT1] or Immigration [IABS]) or both),
- date
- reason for fingerprinting
- officer defined ethnicity
- self-defined ethnicity
- gender of the person scanned
- age of person scanned
- response (i.e., whether the search returned a record. If so, please specify which database the record was returned from)
Q3. How many times was Command & Control contacted following a search.
Q4. What were the nationalities of those people arrested during these scans for a suspected immigration enforcement offence between 1st January 2022 until today's date.
Q5. How many people were arrested during these scans for:
- a suspected Immigration Enforcement offence?
- a criminal offence?
Q6. If your force does not currently use mobile biometric scanners, please state if there are plans to adopt the use of the devices, and if yes on what date.
Please find the Warwickshire Police response set out below.
Response: No information held. Warwickshire Police have not used mobile fingerprinting technology for the specified period and have no current plans to do so.
Every effort has been made to ensure that the information provided is as accurate as possible.
Your attention is drawn to the below which details your right of complaint.
Should you have any further enquiries concerning this matter, please write or email the Freedom of Information Unit quoting the reference number above.
Yours sincerely
Freedom of Information Officer
Freedom of Information Unit
Warwickshire Police
PO Box 4
Leek Wootton
Warwickshire
CV35 7QB