CAT/OP/BOL/3/Add.1 • In accordance with the legal provisions in force, the Ministry of the Interior and the Police have jointly set up the Integrated Criminal Investigation System (SIIC). • This system consists of a series of integrated and computerized processes, services and solutions that have been designed to strengthen criminal investigations on the basis of a service-oriented architecture. It includes the following solutions or systems: (a) A computerized system for the live registration and identification of persons in connection with their criminal record, in operation at a national level; (b) A computerized evidence management system (fingerprints, palm prints and facial recognition data) for the laboratory of the Institute of Forensic Investigation (IITCUP) of the Police University and at national level; (c) A computerized system for the resolution of disputes surrounding the identification of individuals on the basis of their biometric data (fingerprints, palm prints and facial recognition data) and biographical data. • In this regard, the Integrated Criminal Investigation System (SIIC) has the following objectives: • Facilitating expert procedures for direct comparisons in the course of rejection (comparisons with impressions of victims or witnesses) or crossmatching operations (comparisons with impressions obtained from suspects or using controlled models in the system); and efficiently storing, recovering and analyzing recorded biometric data together with the biographical data of persons of interest to the police • Carrying out the four types of searches established in the world for fingerprint identification: traces against traces and prints against prints • Carrying out thematic searches associated with the data in controlled cases and biographical searches using the general data of persons whose models are in the system • Efficiently storing, recovering and analyzing registered biometric data together with the biographical details of persons of interest to the police • Facilitating the editing of databases with expert assistance by means of quality analysis and the assessment of defects that may be found in controlled impressions and defects in fingerprints caused by the methods used to obtain them and the surfaces from which they are taken • Allowing access to other biometric repositories of interest owned by the institution (see annex 35-B) 88. To ensure that they operate in an integrated manner, the systems in question are designed around a shared infrastructure, security system and facilitators of service-oriented architecture and are compatible with the multi-biometric criminal platform. 89. The Ministry of the Interior has taken steps to establish a biometric system for prisoners at national level, and the time schedule established for the registration of persons deprived of their liberty in prisons at national level has been respected. 90. In accordance with the work schedule, the registration of persons deprived of their liberty was completed on 20 October 2017, resulting in the registration of a total of 15,433 persons deprived of their liberty, as shown in the table below. Persons deprived of their liberty Overview 16 Male Female Total 14 432 1 001 15 433 GE.18-12244