Monday, October 10, 2011

Scotland: Glasgow Clubbers give fingerprints to verify age

Reducing violence, disorder, anti-social behaviour (stv)
Carlo Citti, the club owner whose has introduced the idea, said: "In the past 14 days, over 7000 people have registered through our scheme. And out of that 7000 people we have actually caught 19 people with forged passports that were under age.
Video and text at the link.

7000 people in a fortnight! That's a pretty good pace.

Systems like these can pay off in several ways:
♦ Faster ID management can increase revenues by shortening wait times.
♦ More accurate ID management can reduce legal liability for serving the underaged.
♦ Increasing the safety of the establishment can be good for business.