The initiative at the Northern border is aimed at shutting down contraband and human smuggling routes as well as criminal networks that operate along the U.S.-Canada border.
The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) today announces it is purchasing five Explosives Detection Trace Portal machines from Smiths Detection of Pine Brook, N.J., for delivery and deployment in early 2005.
The technology, the Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System, or IAFIS, enables CBP officers and Border Patrol agents to search fingerprint databases simultaneously using the Automated Biometric Identification System (IDENT) and the FBI fing
This office will ensure that Homeland Security is exercising its leadership role to bring local, state, and federal efforts together in a partnership that is essential to national progress on interoperability, said Secretary Ridge.