United Arab Emirates, Border Control. The General Directorate of Abu Dhabi Police in the United Arab Emirates have installed iris recognition at land, sea and air border points. The project, which started in August 2001, involves the enrolment of inmates and expellees' irises from geographically distributed deportation centres throughout the UAE into a central iris database at the General Directorate of Abu Dhabi Police. A real-time, one-to-all, iris check of arriving passengers with new visit or work visas at any UAE border point will reveal if the person had been expelled from the country. The number of searches carried out to date has exceeded 300,000 searches from land, sea and air border points, with a sustained real-time response reported by all sites on a 24x7 basis. The number of searches is expected to rise considerably in the next few months as the authorities will require more traveller categories to submit for an iris recognition at all UAE border entry points. The total number of enrolled IrisCode® templates of expelled persons has exceeded 700,000 records, one of the largest expellee IrisCode template database in the world. The system has already stopped more than 53,000 persons attempting to re-enter the country using passports with different names, some of whom had attempted to re-enter the country on the same day that they were expelled on. | ||||||
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