Criminal Investigation
Griaule's technology enables experts and investigators to register cases, objects, and fragments of faces, fingerprints, irises, and palms from the population. This allows them to process and search the fragments, as well as assist in the investigation and resolution of crimes. Biometric identification enables the registration of the entire prison population of the country and can also be done quickly during police approaches on the street.
#1
Biometric systems for criminal investigation in Brazil
more than 10 thousand
searches per month
of digital fragments
found at crime scenes
thousands of cases
solved per month
with the help of
biometric recognition
Delivered Benefits and Advantages
- Complete and permanent biometric record linked to the criminal record
- Supports experts and investigators in the search for suspects, via fast and accurate searches of fingerprint, palm print, face, and iris biometrics
- Secure management of the chain of custody of biometric traces and evidence in criminal cases
- Assists public entities in identifying missing persons, operating independently of changes in the face caused by age or surgical procedures
- Compliance with the FBI's ACE-V international investigation methodology
- Optimizes criminal background checks with rapid biometric identification during police approaches on the street, avoiding the costly logistics of traveling to the police station
- Provides a forensic tool to identify disaster victims according to Interpol's DVI protocol
- Recognizes faces by automatically processing hours of video from multiple CCTV system cameras
- Assists in necroidentification even in challenging conditions
FEATURED CASES
United States Department of Defense
The Pentagon began using Griaule's biometric identification technology in 2018 for civil and criminal identification to combat terrorism in Iraq and Afghanistan. It is considered the largest military biometric project in the world, with a database of 80 million people and 200,000 daily searches in the system, with latent identification in explosive artifacts and integration with international databases.
National Public Security Secretariat of Brazil
The Ministry of Justice, through the initiative of Senasp (National Public Security Secretariat), donated 1,380 kits with Griaule's criminal investigation software to all units of the federation in 2010. Griaule's software assists fingerprint experts in the processing and comparison of collected fingerprints, which contribute to the identification of suspects or missing persons. Some states still use the kit today.
Secretariat of Public Security and Civil Protection of Mexico
Griaule is the only Brazilian company to provide biometric recognition to the Mexican prison and criminal system with the aim of solving crimes. The technology was incorporated into the country in 2024 and performs database searches in a biometric database with 11 million registered people and 1 million latent fingerprints. The biometric solution also allows the integration of the national database, something unprecedented in Mexico until then.
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