5 day workshop for enrolment users of NAFIS begins in Jammu

Jammu, Dec 18: A five day workshop for enrolment users of National Automated Fingerprint Identification System (NAFIS) began in Jammu today.

According to press release, the workshop is being organised by Crime Branch, J&K in collaboration with Central Finger Print Bureau, NCRB, New Delhi. Bhim Sen Tuti, IPS Inspector General of Police (Hqrs./CIV) PHQ/ Traffic J&K who was the chief guest inaugurated the programme.

The main aim to organise the workshop is to train the police officers for exploring the full potential of NAFIS in J&K. In the workshop 51 officers/officials of Jammu Zone participated, the press release added.

While addressing the inaugural session Bhim Sen Tuti laid stress upon the use of NAFIS for investigation purposes and importance of NAFIS repository for the purpose of identification and investigation of criminal matters and to preserve records collected. Javid Iqbal Matoo-IPS Deputy Inspector General of Police, Crime Branch J&K gave a brief overview to the NAFIS for creating a national searchable repository of criminal fingerprints by digitalising, storing and processing fingerprints available in all states/UTs.

The other officers who were present during the inaugural session were JS. Johar – IPS AIG Training/Policy PHQ J&K, Zaheer Abass, JKPS Dy SP CRB J&K, Varun Jandyal, JKPS DySP Training PHQ J&K and Jagpal Sharma, DySP, (FP Expert) I/C NAFIS CRB J&K.