Interpol identifies victims with software Nijmegen
NIJMEGEN – The international police organization Interpol will use Nijmegen software for the identification of victims and missing persons . This week the contract signed between Interpol and the company Smart Research, a spin-off of the Radboud University.
The company developed the software together with the Dutch Forensic Institute NFI. The contract has a provisional term of 5 years. The first contacts between Nijmegen and Interpol were laid two years ago.
The Nijmegen based company developed the so-called Bonaparte software initially for the identification of victims of major disasters. The program can also be used for familial testing and identification of missing persons, according to the university.
The program calculates rapidly the probability of a relationship between DNA profiles of victims and possible relatives.
Name thanks to Napoleon
The program was named Bonaparte Napoeon because it was there in his time made sure that everyone got a name; the program does the same.
Bonaparte was used in the past by the NFI in the identification of the victims of the airplane disaster in Tripoli (2010) and Ukraine MH17 (2014). Is also using the software resolved the lingering case of the murder of Marianne Vaatstra and could be caught in Utrecht serial molester in 2014. Also at the idenitificatie of anonymous burial of victims of the flood of 1953, the program is used.
Hundreds of thousands of DNA profiles
Next month, employees get from the Nijmegen business link the software to the hundreds of thousands of DNA profiles in the database of Interpol in Lyon. Then it goes through Bonaparte help police in European countries in the identification of missing persons.
Thursday, May 21, 2015 | 11:07 | Last updated: Thursday, May 21, 2015 | 11:20
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