Nigeria: A Fingerprint for Every Vehicle

Police flagoff biometric registration of automobiles (Vanguard)

...Against this backdrop, the police will today flag off the biometric registration of automobiles, during which all vehicles, motorcycles and tricycles are expected to be registered.
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He said: “Police BCMR is a technological means of attaching automobile owners’ special and unique biological traits as well as personal data to their vehicles for easy identification, authentication, protection and crime control. It operates on a smart card and hand-held card reader with a specially- developed enterprise solution for the centralisation and validation of vehicle documents.