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created by ReCAP and by the Directorate General of Private Security Agencies, and to enable
1:N comparisons to be carried out.
Buenos Aires Penitentiary Service
At the beginning of 2011 the Provincial Office of Biometry started working with the Buenos Aires
Penitentiary Service to try to resolve fundamental issues related to the development of prison
services: one the one hand, the issue of inter-prison transfers and transfers to and from court
of inmates at the more than sixty provincial prisons and detention centres, and secondly prison
access for prisoners’ relatives.
To begin to address the foregoing issues, thirty biometric units for the processing of more
than four thousand prisoners and thirty thousand visitors were installed in the Florencia Varela
complex (comprising a total of ten separate facilities).
To do this, the Provincial Office of Biometry delivered three biometric units to each facility,
one for recording prisoners’ biometric details and the other two for the details of the visiting
relatives (divided into men and women). The records comprise fingerprints, photograph
and digital signature, and will be stored in the AFIS server acquired for use by the Provincial
Penitentiary Service.
All of the databases created to date (in other words those set up by the Provincial Directorate of
Road Policy and Safety, the Registry of Event Admission Staff, the Directorate General of Private
Security Agencies and the Provincial Penitentiary Service) are completely cross-referable, having
been set up under protocols and standards certified by the NIST (National Institute of Standards
and Technology), the ANSI (American National Standards Institute) and the FBI (Federal Bureau
of Investigation), and can be integrated with the databases fed by the five hundred local offices
of the Provincial Civil Registry and the Rapid Documentation Centres (CDRs) in which the new
DNI and passport are processed.
There is no doubt that with advances in new technology it has today become possible to carry
out large-scale biometric projects in respect of the general population to complement the
work done in respect of prisoners. Even cost does not present a significant barrier. In fact the
main problem lies in finding specialized staff in this field, not only programmers but also people
who are familiar with the operational rules, standards and practices in other countries.
Nevertheless, we believe that we are on the right track. We must continue working to improve
good and best practices and ensure that all of the biometric databases can be used in crossreference
regardless of where they are or which organization administers them. We are
convinced that the application of biometric tools will provide a noticeable improvement in the
ability of the Province to protect personal identity.
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