Consortium of US States Accept Multimodal Biometric Law Enforcement

Today, NEC Corporation of America announced that the Western Identification Network (WIN) has accepted its Integra-ID5 Multimodal Biometric Identification System (MBIS). The MBIS solution is part of NEC’s Safer Cities platform, and its acceptance by WIN comes after years of testing.

WIN is a consortium comprised of eight U.S. states and various local law enforcement agencies. The initial contract for the MBIS implementation was signed in 2011, but this recent acceptance required a multitude of tests in each of the participating WIN states.

The MBIS was recently upgraded, providing the WIN states and agencies with additional functionality through the central biometric identification system that they share via NEC’s data centers. Now, in addition to providing the ability to search the criminal and civil biometrics records of its member agencies, WIN members can benefit from improved performance, new data migration and conversion capabilities, shared interfacing with the FBI’s NGI program and more.

Julie Butler, chairperson of the WIN Board of Directors, says that NEC’s relationship with the consortium stretches back to 1989.

“…with this delivery, our member states’ expectations for obtaining the latest cutting-edge technology without incurring large capital expenditures was accomplished,” says Butler. “We are pleased with the value NEC has brought to WIN and its member states in this latest implementation.”

Raffie Beroukhim, vice president of NEC Corporation of America’s Biometrics Solutions Division, comments, “This milestone is testament to the skill and efforts of our team as well as the quality of our MBIS solution. The implemented Integra ID5 MBIS solution, with its multi-state configuration, is highly functional, easy to configure, with accuracy and reliability unmatched by any solution on the market today.”

Recently, FindBiometrics spent all of October focusing on biometric law enforcement. Be sure to check out our monthly roundup on the topic to see what the big ideas are in the vertical of justice.

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