London, Oct 9 (ANI): A nationwide face recognition service is likely to be activated in the US by the FBI, which will allow police to pinpoint wanted criminals more quickly and accurately.
The program that would begin by mid-January, is a part of a one billion overhaul of the FBI's existing fingerprint database.
Other biometric markers such as iris scans and voice recordings will also be implemented into the revamped database, the Daily Mail reports.
Bureau officials said the new face recognition feature could help provide the 'missing link' for police for unsolved cases.
"Law enforcement authorities have a photo of a person and for whatever reason they just don't know who it is but they know this is clearly the missing link to our case," Nick Megna, from the FBI's criminal justice information services division said.
It would allow officers to use the software to retrieve mugshots of suspects and rank them on in order of similarity to the features of the person in the picture, the paper said.
FBI agents currently need to have the name of an individual to find a suspect's mugshot within the 10 million images stored in the bureau's Integrated Fingerprint Identification System. (ANI)
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