PIN Home Office Biometrics (HOB) - Strategic Central and Bureau Platform

The Home Office is the UK's lead Government Department for immigration and borders, passports, drugs policy, crime, fire, counter-terrorism and the Police. The Home Office Biometrics Programme (HOB) provides the biometric capability to support law enforcement, immigration, border security and UK passports (HMPO). It covers three primary biometric modalities: fingerprints, DNA and facial matching. HOB is responsible for two legacy national biometric systems (IABS and IDENT1) that provide this core biometric capabili...