New project to fingerprint expatriates at entry points to begin in 4 months
If things go according to plan, then new fingerprint scanners for Qatari residents will soon be set up at the Hamad International Airport. It will be used to scan fingerprints of people entering and exiting the country.
It is also hoped that this system will eventually replace the ‘fingerprinting’ procedure that new residence permit seekers undergo, at a separate facility, a few days after entering the country.
Brigadier Nasser Abdullah Al Mahmoud, director of Criminal Evidence and Information Department (CEID) at the Ministry of Interior (MoI), said the project’s trial phase will begin in four months.
“The apparatuses to scan fingerprints will be soon installed at HIA and all the other entry and exit points of the country,” Gulf Times quoted him as saying.
He added that the new machines would ensure the identity of people entering the country, ban the entry of ‘internationally and domestically wanted’ people and those who have court sentences against them.
The new fingerprint machines will be state-of-the-art and connected to the department’s data base, consisting of almost five million prints.
