Activating the Next Generation Identification System

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My field of study is Criminal Justice. A new development in this field had been put in place by the FBI this new development is Next Generation Identification system or (NGI) which is what it will be referred to in this essay. NGI is what will be enhancing and/or replacing IAFIS which is the current system used my law enforcement. NGI is a state-of -the-art biometric identification service. NGI is a one point two billion dollar investment by the U.S. federal government. It will take a total of ten years for NGI to be fully activated. NGI is divided into six different stages, which are ten-print processing, RISC, national palm repository and latent searches,facial recognition and Rap Back,Iris recognition, and Tech refresh. The NGI Program Office’s main goals are to minimize terrorism and criminal activity by improving the current biometric identification and criminal history database known as IAFIS. The goals that this systems hope to achieve are public safety and national security, biometric leadership, privacy and data protection, and efficiency improvements. NGI is a joint creation of the Bureau, the CJIS Advisory Policy Board and members of Compact Council,composed of local,state,federal, and international representatives. A study contractor from IntelliDyne help the FBI to confirm the stakeholder requirements. 193 agencies and over 1,000 individuals are stakeholders. Some of the stakeholders include State Identification Bureaus, State Crime Labs, Federal Agencies, Authorized Non-Criminal Justice Agencies, and Special Interest groups such as NIST and SEARCH. Step One is the ten-print processing which was started in 2011. Using algorithms from Morphotrak NGI will be able to do back-end processing of the ten-print finger... ... middle of paper ... ...m so it can run as needed. Many people question why NGI is being introduced now and the answer that Edgell gave was “NGI did not require the creation of any authority from the FBI. The FBI had all the authority to do everything I’ve already described. We just didn’t have the technology to do it or the business progress to go along with it...”Edgell,B. Chief of the implementation and transition unit. In conclusion the NGi is the newest development in the field of criminal justice. It enhances the old technology such as fingerprinting but it also adds new ways to identify people using the iris recognition. The biggest problem NGI has is the possibility of not following the Freedom of Information by monitoring everyday people, but nothing has been proven at this time. All in all the NGI system has proved to be an excellent new addition the the Criminal Justice system.

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