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

By The Nation

 

 

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.

 

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

 

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Eh, that's why those empty streets and bars in Pattaya ...

555!

9 minutes ago, webfact said:

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

Just a matter of time before they start to demand  a DNA tests of every foreigner entering the country, a bood test on arrival. After all, every foreigner is a suspect.

Just where are these SIXTEEN INTERNATIONAL airports in Thailand please?

Do you really need a biometric system to check how many overstayers are in the country???  A simple check of the  data compilation from all entry points would have found that!!! 

16 minutes ago, webfact said:

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. 

8000 at 16 airports = 500 at each, in three days = 166 per day.

Some of these 'International' airports only have a few flights a day.

Figures are wrong somehow.

Edited October 21, 20196 yr by wgdanson

Looks like ole gen Sompong is trying to outdo Big Joke in the BS stakes.

OK

17 minutes ago, wgdanson said:

Just where are these SIXTEEN INTERNATIONAL airports in Thailand please?

Only eleven on Wiki 

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_airports_in_Thailand

Why do they need a biometrics system to spot overstayers? Surely the date of entry in their passport shows that. I also find the numbers being quoted truly unbelievable. Maybe the person compiling them has recently been transferred from TAT.

Yet another 'fact' thats just too big to swallow! 8000 in 3 days? At that rate they'd be over-spilling the jails and needed to use empty hotel rooms. 

the claimed numbers smell a little of BS to me.

2 minutes ago, Lungstib said:

Yet another 'fact' thats just too big to swallow! 8000 in 3 days? At that rate they'd be over-spilling the jails and needed to use empty hotel rooms. 

Of which there are plenty.

30 minutes ago, wgdanson said:

8000 at 16 airports = 500 at each, in three days = 166 per day.

Some of these 'International' airports only have a few flights a day.

Figures are wrong somehow.

They are using the calculator  from TAT. 

3 hours ago, wgdanson said:

8000 at 16 airports = 500 at each, in three days = 166 per day.

Some of these 'International' airports only have a few flights a day.

Figures are wrong somehow.

Just as the 40 million (or was it billion?) arrivals each year. Just fantasy.

Edited October 21, 20196 yr by metisdead
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7 minutes ago, SmartyMarty said:

the claimed numbers smell a little of BS to me.

 

Yes, but what if some matches are in error? 

39 minutes ago, wgdanson said:

Just where are these SIXTEEN INTERNATIONAL airports in Thailand please?

There are 11 here:

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_airports_in_Thailand

 

More utter nonsense from this mob.....the numbers are impossible for them to manage...let alone process. 

But, always a good PR point and maybe increases in budgets.

44 minutes ago, RotBenz8888 said:

Just a matter of time before they start to demand  a DNA tests of every foreigner entering the country, a bood test on arrival. After all, every foreigner is a suspect.

ahh, the old slippery slope argument.  we might as well head to our underground shelters.

People that need a calculator to add two 2-digit numbers will not question this figures. Too much headache.


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44 minutes ago, wgdanson said:

8000 at 16 airports = 500 at each, in three days = 166 per day.

Some of these 'International' airports only have a few flights a day.

Figures are wrong somehow.

no, you assume too much.  not every airport will equally share in the numbers caught per day.  some will have many more (my guess is that Suvarnibum and Don Mueang will have the vast majority), while others may have only a few.  you dig, trig?

1 hour ago, webfact said:

He has also been a fugitive in a fraudulent check charge since 1991. 

Better late than never I guess.

Yeah, that´s the way to go. It´s outrageous, that we have posters on this forum that say the Thai police don´t work. According to all these numbers they are working overtime. ????????

I not only worry about the arithmetic used in this article, but where are they housing all these people until they face the courts, or are deported?

It appears to me to be physically impossible to hold that many people in secure accommodation on short notice.

1 hour ago, wgdanson said:

8000 at 16 airports = 500 at each, in three days = 166 per day.

Some of these 'International' airports only have a few flights a day.

Figures are wrong somehow.

 

your implementation of averaging is wrong somehow

 

 

1 hour ago, wgdanson said:

Just where are these SIXTEEN INTERNATIONAL airports in Thailand please?

 

You don't unnerstan mista. Name good, have no inernatnal flight no poblem. Say inernatnal get big face, na?

12 minutes ago, Matzzon said:

Yeah, that´s the way to go. It´s outrageous, that we have posters on this forum that say the Thai police don´t work. According to all these numbers they are working overtime. ????????

 

nah they still don't work.. automation is catching the bad guys now

 

 

Just now, GeorgeCross said:

 

nah they still don't work.. automation is catching the bad guys now

 

 

Does Mr Biometric also process them and put them in IDC as well as the airports?

Awesome ! Get rid of the sh.t! Means cheaper food accommodation n massages for me.