Thread: Airport biometric systems catch 45,000 overstayers, 1,000 on blacklists

Using an advanced biometric system, 16 international airports in Thailand have found more than 1,000 people on blacklists and watch lists, over 45,000 who overstayed in the kingdom, and about 700 who have arrest warrants, Immigration Police chief Lt-General Sompong Chingduang said on Monday.

The biometric system can also translate information in a chip on a passport and compare this with facial features using UV and infrared light to see whether there are any differences to identify fake passports

In a span of just three days, the system has helped police arrest 8,000 illegal immigrants, fake passport holders, overstaying travellers, and legal offenders on arrest warrants.


Recently, Thananat Siripiyaporn, an infamous billionaire groom who left his bride without allegedly paying wedding bills, was arrested at Don Mueang Airport after his arrival from Hong Kong. He has also been a fugitive in a fraudulent check charge since 1991.


A biometrics system is primarily a body and behaviour observation system to identify physiological characteristics by using fingerprint, palm print, voice, face recognition, DNA, iris recognition, retina, and signatures, all of which have been used by the US Central Intelligence Agency and the Federal Bureau of Investigation for the past 25 years.


However, the proficiency of this system depends on the commitment and collaboration of responsible offices including the police, immigration office, and the Justice Department to update and share their databases to make sure the system can identify a suspect even after he/she changes identity.

https://www.nationthailand.com/news/30377606

Originally Posted by misskit

In a span of just three days, the system has helped police arrest 8,000 illegal immigrants

Well done BIB! be nobody left if they continue at that rate????

Well done, only a matter of time before bio-tech started paying its way, though it's quite a striking admission for Thais that their earlier systems were so thoroughly incompetent.

There's 16 international airports in Thailand?

Originally Posted by CSFFan

There's 16 international airports in Thailand?

Technically, yes.....

Originally Posted by CSFFan

There's 16 international airports in Thailand?

The ones you haven't thought of are prolly ones taking plane loads of chinky tourists.

Originally Posted by CSFFan

There's 16 international airports in Thailand?

Lessee...Hat Yai, Krabi, Phuket, Surat Thani, Suvarnabhumi, Don Muang, U-Tapao, Chiang Mai, Chiang Rai...those are the only ones I know of.

Samui, Hua Hin and Udon Thani?

Do all 16 have biometric sytems?

Grief, they can't even report a system without talking utter drivel.

The detection of offenders at ports of entry, criminal or otherwise, is simply a consequence of the correlation of data contained in the travel document with records held in a multi-faceted database. Up until relatively recently they were manually inputting name checks into their central database but now are scanning documents that removes operator error in interrogating that database. The bonus is that the scanning process also automatically opens up a chip, if contained, in the document which helps to detect photo substitution and the falsification of biodata, forgeries that hitherto could pass a cursory visual examination if well executed.

Essentially, by scanning documents they have managed to reduce previous inefficiencies and incompetence.

The next major development will be automatic gates for their own nationals.

45,000 overstayers? Does that seem even vaguely creditable?

^Seems like they're bigging up their system as part of the new budget allocations announced this week.

Originally Posted by nidhogg

45,000 overstayers? Does that seem even vaguely creditable?

8000 guys caught in three days sounds dodgy as well ...maybe they outsourced the stats to TAT?

Biometric scanning system to be trialled in five provincial airports

The Ministry of Transport is considering using biometric technology for facial scanning of air passengers, initially at five provincial airports, as a pilot project under a plan to develop smart airports across the country.


Deputy Transport Minister Thaworn Senneam said today that a working committee, comprising representatives of the Department of Airports under the Transport Ministry, the Royal Thai Police Office and the Ministry of Interior, has been set up to conduct a study into the use of biometric scanning systems.


He said biometrics are widely used at airports in Europe, the Americas and in Singapore, with Malaysia currently studying the system.


Mr. Thaworn stressed the need for biometric scanning systems in airports in Thailand, an important aviation hub in Asia, claiming the systems will cut check-in times by half and, in the future, might allow passengers to check in without the need to show their passports or ID cards.


The deputy transport minister also claimed that a recently updated biometric system makes it possible for passengers to check in at their hotels, before departing for the airport.


The five provincial airports slated to be part of the trial are Krabi, Surat Thani, Udon Thani and Khon Kaen.


In addition to the facial scanning system, Mr. Thaworn said the Transport Ministry is planning to make it more convenient for passengers, using the five provincial airports, by arranging rest areas and work spaces for them while they wait for their flights.



https://www.thaipbsworld.com/biometr...cial-airports/

Originally Posted by misskit

Biometric scanning system to be trialled in five provincial airports

The Ministry of Transport is considering using biometric technology for facial scanning of air passengers, initially at five provincial airports, as a pilot project under a plan to develop smart airports across the country.


Deputy Transport Minister Thaworn Senneam said today that a working committee, comprising representatives of the Department of Airports under the Transport Ministry, the Royal Thai Police Office and the Ministry of Interior, has been set up to conduct a study into the use of biometric scanning systems.


He said biometrics are widely used at airports in Europe, the Americas and in Singapore, with Malaysia currently studying the system.


Mr. Thaworn stressed the need for biometric scanning systems in airports in Thailand, an important aviation hub in Asia, claiming the systems will cut check-in times by half and, in the future, might allow passengers to check in without the need to show their passports or ID cards.


The deputy transport minister also claimed that a recently updated biometric system makes it possible for passengers to check in at their hotels, before departing for the airport.


The five provincial airports slated to be part of the trial are Krabi, Surat Thani, Udon Thani and Khon Kaen.


In addition to the facial scanning system, Mr. Thaworn said the Transport Ministry is planning to make it more convenient for passengers, using the five provincial airports, by arranging rest areas and work spaces for them while they wait for their flights.



https://www.thaipbsworld.com/biometr...cial-airports/

WTF does that mean?

Originally Posted by beerlaodrinker

Do all 16 have biometric sytems?

asking for a friend. ? 555

Originally Posted by Neverna

Samui, Hua Hin and Udon Thani?

Udon Thani is an international airport but with no international destinations, no customs and no immigration facility.

It did have flights to Singapore briefly but can't recall any others.