Mobile fingerprint scanners

Freedom of Information Act request number: 2022-068

Version date: 24/02/2022

Mobile Fingerprint Scanners
1. The number of Mobile Fingerprint Scanners owned by your force in each year from 2015 to 2021 (inclusive). 

Dorset Police has 450 devices – all rolled out between September and December 2021 as part of a pilot phase but they haven’t been used in the operational environment yet

2. The number of times Mobile Fingerprint Scanners were used by officers in your force in each year from 2015 to 2021. 

Not applicable

3. The number of people who were scanned using mobile fingerprint scanners in each year from 2015 to 2021 (inclusive). If you record the data, please break this down by age, gender and ethnicity. 

Not applicable

4. Please list the databases against which your Mobile Fingerprint Scanners check for matched and (if you hold the data) the number of matches against each database recorded in each year from 2015 to 2021 (inclusive).

2 databases that the fingerprint readers will access are: IDENT1 and PNC