Command & Control, Identification

‘Forensic level’ security for immigration

By Jianggan Li | 22 August 2008

The Malaysian Ministry of Home Affairs has awarded a contract for the supply a new national security solution to the Immigration Department for foreigners entering or working in Malaysia.

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The agreement was inked in conjunction with the Bali Process Conference with Nexbis, a Malaysian company specialising in the areas of National Security, Identify Verification and Document Authentication.

The Bali Process is an intergovernment initiative to foster collaboration in combating people smuggling, trafficking and related crimes in Asia Pacific and beyond.

The conference is hosted by the Immigration Department of Malaysia, co-chaired by Australia Government, and attended by senior government officials from over 50 participating countries and numerous international agencies.

Under the agreement signed, Nexbis is supplying to the Immigration Department its National Security Solution.

This involves the application of NexCodeTM security features onto existing immigration identity and travel authentication to ensure information is correctly linked to intended identities and the detection of fraudulent activities which usually relate to other forms of crime.

In addition to this, all Immigration enforcement officers will be equipped with secure mobile phone-based field enforcement applications to carry out identity verification operations around the country. This completes the capabilities of the Immigration Department to perform forensic level enforcement on a nationwide basis with secure access to information and statuses from its live databases.

Speaking at the signing ceremony, Tan Sri Abdul Aziz bin Mohd. Yusof, Secreatary General of the Ministry of Home Affairs said that the solution will enhance and increase the Immigration Department’s nationwide enforcement capabilities with access to secure information in real-time.

The solution will also be able to extend the same capabilities to other larger enforcement agencies such as the Royal Malaysian Police, RELA civil volunteers corps, national anti-drug agency and the prison department within the Ministry of Home Affairs to deal with foreigner related issues and curb crime.

“This agreement paves the way for the Government of Malaysia to develop significant and coordinated inter-department and inter-government collaboration via NexCodeTM’s capability to crosslink between agencies and even governments to assist in internal and transnational crime,” added Dato’ Wahid bin Md. Don, Director General of Immigration.