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IGP calls for understanding and cooperation.
As part
of efforts at repositioning the Nigeria Police Force to effectively and
efficiently fulfill its constitutional roles of saving lives and property,
combating terrorism; preventing crimes; apprehending and prosecuting offenders,
amongst other duties, the Force will with effect from Monday. 16th
September, 2013 change the registration processes of vehicles, tricycles and
auto-bikes from the old analogue CMR to the new Digital Biometric Central Motor
Registration (BCMR) system.
The
decision informing the introduction of the BCMR comes against the backdrop of
contemporary security challenges bordering on terrorism, high incidence of car
theft, carjacking, kidnappings and other acts of crimes and criminalities in
our society. Unlike our hitherto analogue based procedures, the BCMR
operates on smart-cards and portable hand-held receiver and is a specially
developed technological means of attaching automobile owner’s unique traits and
personal data to their vehicles for proper identification and protection
purposes.
The
Police BCMR is designed to be used for forensic analysis. Fingerprints
can be matched or verified against registered finger prints collected during
registration. It is designed to match 20 million fingerprints per seconds
(the speed depends on the size of registered prints) 20 million fingerprints is
equivalent to 2 million people (10 prints per person). Facial Matching
can also be achieved with Police BCMR; our database can be matched with still
pictures and frames from a video stream. The system can match 500,000
pictures per minute (if you have a registered database of 150 million, the
likely match time for facial recognition is about 300 minutes (5hrs).
As a huge
store of information, the BCMR will provide a one-stop information data base
for all vehicle owners and serve as a strong forensic base for all manners of
investigations which will greatly enhance policing operations particularly in
the area of tracking down and locating positions of missing vehicles,
preventing crimes, arresting criminals guaranteeing safer and a more secure use
of our roads and other sundry crimes.
The BCMR
has three means of registration which could be either through designated Banks,
on-line or at some Police Commands. In the case of the Banks, car owners pay
the registration fees at the Banks, collect their pin numbers and proceed to
the registration points for their registration - a process that does not take
more than ten minutes. You can also pay on-line, get your registration pin,
commence the pre-registration by yourself, filling the details of your vehicle
and personal data but the registrant would still have to get a designated
registration to complete the registration process where his bio-data, photo and
fingerprints would be captured. In the Police Commands and other designated
formations, registrants would purchase a scratch card which would give pins to
be used for registration. Vehicle owners are expected to pay N3,500.00, while
tricycles popularly called “Keke Marwa” or “keke Napep” and auto-bikes go for
N1,500.00.
Meanwhile,
the Inspector-General of Police, IGP MD Abubakar calls for the understanding,
cooperation and support of all Nigerians towards ensuring the success of the
scheme.
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