View Poll Results: Would you be happy to have your prints taken at the side of the road?
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[QUOTE]Fingerprint Scanner Trial
Drivers pulled over by police are to have their fingerprints scanned by the side of the road.
A pilot scheme for a new hand-held electronic fingerprint reader is to be launched in Luton, Bedfordshire, by officers targeting motoring offences.
Police hope the Lantern device will save time and money by allowing them to identify suspects on the roadside without having to take them to the station.
It lets officers search a national database of 6.5m fingerprints and get a result within five minutes.
The Home Office's Police Information Technology Organisation (Pito) calculates it could save more than
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I voted no.
I see this as yet another erosion of basic civil liberties, even if it is voluntary at the moment.*
* I wonder if successful, whether after the trial, the find a way of making it compulsory.
I see this as yet another erosion of basic civil liberties, even if it is voluntary at the moment.*
* I wonder if successful, whether after the trial, the find a way of making it compulsory.
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No.
Although at present it appears that fingerprints are not stored but checked against the database, as RichUK suggests, these inititatives have a habit of function creep once people get used to the basic idea.
Although at present it appears that fingerprints are not stored but checked against the database, as RichUK suggests, these inititatives have a habit of function creep once people get used to the basic idea.
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I don't have an issue with it, in theory. I haven't done anything wrong and if it means they catch the consistent offenders that do disappearing acts, then 
I suspect it may get abused, however, and that's my only issue.
I suspect it may get abused, however, and that's my only issue.
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Its for the Manchester car thieves.
It doesn't store records or create new ones..it checks against a central database and therefore does not cause an unfringement of civil liberties.
I've no problem with it - apart from the fact that you don't have to give you prints of you don't have to.
Bit of a flaw in that plan then !
It doesn't store records or create new ones..it checks against a central database and therefore does not cause an unfringement of civil liberties.
I've no problem with it - apart from the fact that you don't have to give you prints of you don't have to.
Bit of a flaw in that plan then !
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I've got no problems with it as long as its an electronic scan, and i don't get inky fingers! They are already allowed to store your DNA, so if you've got nothing to hide, why worry about fingerprints.
