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Automated firearms identification is now a universally accepted technology. As the system with the largest installed base, IBIS has become the de facto world standard.
The emergence of a world standard enables law enforcement agencies worldwide to share ballistic data. This capability is now being leveraged as a tool for international collaboration among law enforcement agencies worldwide. Countries have begun to link up their IBIS systems. Europe already has EURO-IBIS, while the United States recently concluded an agreement to link their NIBIN system with Canada's.
INTERPOL
In early 2009, INTERPOL signed an agreement with Forensic Technology, wherein the latter will install and maintain an IBIS correlation server at INTERPOL headquarters in Lyon, France. Countries participating in this program can on voluntary basis share their ballistic data.
Asia is also rapidly catching up with the West. Thailand, Hong Kong, Taiwan, India and the Philippines have already deployed IBIS systems.
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