The land, air and sea ports were crowded during the weekend as Kuwait started applying the new sensory fingerprint “biometric features” on all arriving and departing citizens, Gulf nationals and expatriates.
A security source told Al-Qabas that the devices with the “biometric features” system, or the so-called sensory fingerprint, for the third day of its application worked with accuracy, efficiency, high capacity, and great speed in showing results, and in collecting data of all people who underwent fingerprinting during the past 48 hours.
The source said: The sensory fingerprint device needs only 120 seconds to detect counterfeiters and those wanted by security, and to record the security data of the person subject to the fingerprint.
The source confirmed that the work on the new fingerprint system is in full swing so that everyone who resides on the land of Kuwait is subject to that fingerprint, in order to cut seize the wanted persons, counterfeiters and suspicious elements, pointing out that those whose residency expires will not be able to renew it except by submitting to the sensory fingerprint at the criminal evidences department in the six governorates.
The source pointed out that everyone who joins work in one of the ministries will also be subject to the sensory fingerprint, in addition to citizens who renew their passports.
The source explained that the “Criminal Evidence Department”, in cooperation and coordination with the General Department of Information Systems, has distributed several devices for sensory fingerprinting to many sectors of the Ministry of Interior, such as criminal investigations, residence investigations, residence affairs and service centers.
