I was working in the last years
frequently in the area of the Integrated Border
Management in different countries, especially in Central
America, in 6, respectively 7 countries in 2 missions
(2009 and 2011), Moldova and the Ukraine, and also as
consultant in UK.
Other frequent activity in this area is
the participation in biometric identification projects,
such I have realized in Nicaragua, Moldova, Yemen and in
Spain. In the projects usually were oriented on an
integral approach starting with the birth register and
civil registry, including the emission of identity
documents and passports. Objective was the creation of a
biometric population register, using biometric
identification and conventional methods of the civil
register work, like the application of a national
identification number, existing in many countries. Over
this issues were prepared any articles.
In my assignment in Peru I have had the first direct
contact to the security techniques area, working
there in an integral project for the Interior
Ministry, the Navy and the justice sector. In this
time we have had biometrical projects for security
documents and ID-cards (with and without approximity
chips), as well IT systems with special security
requirements. A special example for this is the
Peruvian Passport project which was developed under
my direction with a group of local and foreign
engineers. In the first month of my assignment in
Peru the Minister of Interior was assigning my the
task to make the project for an machine readable
passport according to the standards of the
International Civil Aviation Organization with
OCR-B. In the project was included a biometric
verification of the passport emission. The project
and the bidding documents were elaborated by
my group and the bidding was executed by the
ministry. I was in the bidding member of the
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3M-Special film with inverse print for
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By side the passports there was the request to avoid
cases of double emission of passports for one and the
same person under different identification, as well the
security to avoid bad practices inside the institution.
As verification criteria was selected biometric
verification schemas. As biometric indicators were
captured the fingerprint and the hand geometry. The hand
geometry was especially interesting why the data set was
very short (9 byte long) and with this data was given
the compatibility with systems like INSPASS and
CANADAPASS, which is specially interesting for frequent
user.
The data capturing equipment was conformed in
the following form:
- Each alphanumeric data capturing station were
assigned two biometrical data capturing stations
(PCs),
- Digital camera with manual adjusting possibility
over the biometric station,
- Fingerprint scanner,
- Handkey for the capture of the hand geometry
- Signpad to digitalize the signature.
Under consideration that the implementation in the
main offices of the DIGEMIN was finished in 1998 and the
installations in the provinces was until 1999 operative,
the system was very modern, not only for Latin America,
also for the developed countries. A corresponding
interest was in these countries, so many official
delegations were visiting the DIGEMIN to see our system.
Should be mentioned, that the strong centralization of
the passport emission of the Peruvian migration
authority was a important criteria to implement the
system in this form. I was getting in this time
different strong comments from Germany, especially
critics according the data privacy politics, which was
legally different and was changing only after the 9/11
incident. But the internal political situation in Peru
in this years, characterized by a nearly civil war
situation, with strong problems in the drug
trafficking area and a generally high level of common
criminality was requesting these methods to make the
process safer.
My with this project shown competence
was used later from different other governmental
institutions which were integrated in the project
RENADEPPLE. Especially is there mentionable my
involvement in projects from the Ministry of Interior
and the Peruvian Navy, where I was attending later
projects with biometric components in the security
area. Generally I was preparing the description of the
technical solution, the bidding documents and I was
participating in the technical evaluation group of the
biddings. In any cases I was working in the same
projects as consultant and in the supervision of the
contractor in the project execution. This was gong
until the source code verification.
Interesting is
in this content also that we have implemented
biometric components in projects for access control,
as well to protect sensible information in IT systems,
which have fulfilled partially the specifications of
the electronic signature and/or data encryption use.
The so developed IT systems were implemented on
national level, partially also on the international
level, in embassies and other official offices outside
the country.
By side of this direct technical activities in the
security sector we have analyzed with my group the
security from buildings and administrative acts in
different governmental institutions with any
surprising results, discovering real leaks in the
security. For instance in the International
Airport "Jorge Chavez" in Lima, which we have analyzed
in base of strong differences in the migration
statistic (evaluation of the migration movements from
1990 until 1996). According to the migration
statistics were disappeared 10.000 persons with
US-passport each year. The number was obviously wrong,
but nearly each year with the same amount, reason
enough to check out these cases. As a first, and most
important result was fixed that many people with
double citizenship - US and Peruvian - were entering
Peru with the US passport as US-Americans, but staying
there more as 2 months they need to pay a visa which
was more expansive as to buy a new Peruvian passport.
So these people were buying a new Peruvian passport,
and going out of Peru as Peruvians. An other result
was a wrong line out of ways for the passengers in
transit from Bolivia, which were coming in from
Bolivia, crossing the border control into Peru, but
guided later back to the transit room without a new
check in. With these both results be could fix nearly
99,3 % of the observed irregularities, fixing the
roles for these cases.
After my assignment in Peru I was working
as contractor for a German enterprise to elaborate a
plan for the investigation and development of
biometric systems for security systems, witch should
combine in modular manner different biometrical
methods, permitting so the user a set of possibilities
for a modern modular system, witch is scalable
according to the security needs of the costumer.
Since my throwback from Afghanistan I was starting
again to work in the security area, again in the
integration of biometric devices into security systems
for the Spanish spoken area. First contracts are in
execution and a corresponding Web-Site is in
preparation which will be lunched in short time.
Finally should be mentioned that exactly in the
security area it's not possible to publish many
details without certain problems with the clients.
More details can be given in direct contacts.
In conclusion in the security area I was
involved or leading the following activities:
- Analysis of the security needs from buildings
and processes,
- Week point analysis in existing systems and
buildings,
- Elaboration of security concepts and contingency
plans for buildings, processes and information in
all forms and formats,
- Elaboration of bidding documents and evaluation
of the responses,
- Installation and installation supervision of
third party supplies,
- System integration of biometric and other sensor
equipment (Movement detectors, camera equipment, gas
sensors, long-distance signalization, etc.),
- Supervision of third enterprises in the
reconstruction security equipment,
- Maintenance and troubleshooting in installations
and systems.