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Netherlands: Quick Check System

01 January 1996

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In the last months of 1995, a new online fingerprint verification system, the Quick Check System (QCS) has been used to screen thousands of people requesting asylum at the Dutch border and has been installed in three asylum reception centres. QCS consists of an infrared scanner which "reads" the two middle fingers and sends the data over a normal telephone line to the central "Havank" police database for cross-checking against some 770,000 records. The response time is normally less than an hour, and the system can also be installed in a patrol car. Of the 4,466 asylum seekers scanned, some eight percent had been rejected on an earlier request or were registered for criminal offences. These asylum seekers receive a train ticket and are requested to leave the country. The Scandinavian countries and Canada have shown their interest for QCS.

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