Fingerprinting is part of the latest legislation to keep track of residents in the TCI.
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This is only minorly useful when done with ink and paper. We lack the resources to work with and manage paper records. If anything ,our little country needs extensive computer ingfrastructure, not more paperwork.
There is no practical way to cross reference the paper data or share it between departments. The biggest result of this appears to be a backlog and long lines, as well as some additional revenue. The crime fighting value is highly questionable as is the immigration value.
Why, in 2008, was this not done digitally? Surely the Monte Carlo of the caribbean, which can afford private jet travel for the decision makers, can afford digital fingerprinting. Doesn’t Beaches use it for tracking staff timeclock records? Now that would make sense.
With digital records, you could pass through immigration with a press of the finger. Your records could be shared between departments that need them based on that unique index. Crime scene prints could be digitized and compared against the known data base. Now that would make sense.
This, I fear, will add little but long delays and higher costs.
If this was be an aid to security they would be fingerprinting all visitors, residents and Belongers. They are not. There is no evidence that expats are any more likely to commit a crime here than Belongers so why are they doing this. This is obviously a breach of Human Rights. TCI is a signatory. Why is the Human Rights Commission silent?