He is an illegal immigrant with at least eight aliases and an arrest record in California that includes attempted murder, robbery, theft, drugs and exhibiting a firearm. Yet if Andres Maldonado Nava ...

The effectiveness of DNA testing and searches of the national DNA database is well-known. Over the last three decades, 137 wrongly convicted people were exonerated through DNA database “hits,” which ...

Of the 32,431 Met Police officers, 17,458 have their DNA on the force's elimination database, which is 53.8%, while 25,802 ...

Police in Scotland may be failing to fingerprint more than 12,000 a year due to inadequate operational practices and a lack of supervision.

The NYPD’s high-tech fingerprint database was temporarily brought down by a bumbling contractor with a virus-infected mini computer, The Post has learned. A contractor was setting up a digital display ...

WASHINGTON — More than three years after the Sept. 11 attacks, the Bush administration has failed to create a unified U.S. fingerprint database because of agency infighting, meaning most visitors to ...

WASHINGTON - Hackers who stole security clearance data on millions of Defense Department and other U.S. government employees got away with about 5.6 million fingerprint records, some 4.5 million more ...

University of Surrey provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation UK. Fingerprints have provided key evidence in countless cases of serious crime. But there are still some situations in ...

In a big oops, over 200,000 Danish passports were printed with the users' fingerprints mistakenly swapped between the left and right hand. Since October 2011, all new Danish passports contain chips ...