News Excerpt:

The National Terrorism Data Fusion & Analysis Centre (NTDFAC), which is modelled along the lines of the Global Terrorism Database of the US, is scheduled to be inaugurated by Union Home Minister.

More on the news:

• The details of the terrorists and their associates, including their case history, fingerprints, videos, pictures and social media profiles and information on the terror groups they belong to have been compiled.
• At the NTDFAC, the NIA has the National Automated Fingerprint Identification System with over 92 lakh fingerprint records - 
• Integrated Monitoring of Terrorism with data of more than 22,000 terrorist cases along with their case studies, 
• National Integrated Database on Arrested Narco-Offenders with data of more than 5 lakh narco offenders, their source of funding, their involvement along with their cases registered in India, their latest pictures and social media profiles.
• The NTDFAC will also have a face recognition system, which will help them scan pictures of suspects from any CCTV footage.
• The NTDFAC will not only help the NIA officers but also help state police forces to identify details of their suspect from this server. 
• Currently, they have uploaded videos and photographs of the terrorists and their associates, but in future there are plans also to put voice samples to help identify the terrorists.

National Automated Fingerprint Identification System (NAFIS):

• It is a biometric system used by law enforcement agencies and government organizations in various countries to store and manage fingerprint data. 
• It is designed to facilitate the rapid and accurate identification of individuals by comparing their fingerprints with a database of known fingerprints. 
• It enables law enforcement agencies to upload, trace, and retrieve data from the database in real time on a 24×7 basis.
• It assigns a unique 10-digit National Fingerprint Number (NFN) to each person arrested for a crime. 
• This unique ID is used for the person’s lifetime, and different crimes registered under different FIRs are linked to the same NFN. 
• The ID’s first two digits are that of the state code in which the person arrested for a crime is registered, followed by a sequence number.
• By automating the collection, storage, and matching of fingerprints, along with digitizing the records of fingerprint data, it provides the much-needed unique identifier for every arrested person in the CCTNS (Crime and Criminal Tracking Network & Systems) database as both are connected at the backend.