Mobile Biometric Devices Cost Savings
NPIA signed a contract with Cogent Systems, a biometrics firm, for mobile devices to check
prints against those on the National Fingerprint Database at a cost of £9 million over three years.
Deputy chief constable Peter Goodman, who leads mobile identification for the Association of Chief
Police Officers (ACPO), said the MobileID devices would provide cost savings equivalent to releasing
some 360 officers back to front- line policing each year. He stated: “At a time when funding is likely
to be constrained or reduced, technical innovation has promise in saving the police service time and
money as well as in aiding bringing criminals to justice more quickly.”