NEC Corporation of America, a leading provider of innovative IT, communications, and biometrics solutions, announced that it has been awarded a multiyear contract with the Western Identification Network, (WIN) to modernize WIN's multistate criminal identification system. The updated system will include advanced identification capabilities (such as high-resolution palm and fingerprint matching and ...
NEC Corporation of America, a leading provider of innovative IT, communications, and biometrics solutions, announced that it has been awarded a multiyear contract with the Western Identification Network, (WIN) to modernize WIN's multistate criminal identification system. The updated system will include advanced identification capabilities (such as high-resolution palm and fingerprint matching and other emerging biometric functions), disaster recovery facilities, and enhanced system performance.
WIN is a nonprofit organization that provides reliable, effective, leading-edge identification services to the law enforcement agencies and citizens of its member states – Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, Washington, Wyoming, and California (as an interface member). Its members have access to approximately 28 million fingerprint records of the Western United States.
“WIN has served for nearly a quarter of a century as a cooperative law enforcement venture that helps apprehend criminals that could otherwise effectively disappear across state lines. We're excited about the potential our future holds with NEC, and look forward to providing continued first-rate biometric identification services to our membership,” said Mr. Kenneth E. Bischoff, WIN CEO.
“Use of WIN'S operating budget virtually eliminates the need for upfront capital investment,” said Mr. Raffie Beroukhim, VP of Biometric Solutions for NEC. “We believe this services-based model is a much more cost-effective way to help law enforcement organizations implement and maintain biometric identification systems, and ultimately keep criminals off the street.”
“This updated system will provide our members with a more accurate search engine that will save investigation time,” said Ms. Julie Butler, Records Bureau Manager at the Nevada Department of Public Safety and chairperson of the WIN Board of Directors. “And with NEC's service-oriented architecture members can expand their identification services to include other biometric modalities such as facial recognition.”