Nov 23 2009
Keeping security abroad
To highlight his point we were just reading an article about the South Korean police force having to find a more secure way to identify their 100,000 officers that could not be easily duplicated. They went to a registered hologram technology that is next to impossible to copy and is encoded specifically for their police force. They decided to print the cards internally to prevent any counterfeiting of ID badges. Many of the outfits that do this use the HP Laserjet print cartridge printers in order to reduce duplication and have a longer lasting image that can be scanned and worn in the field. Since the newly registered can’t be copied or reproduced by conventional printers or scanners this gave them a high level of security. They also included a color photo of the officer and essential information for the id card holders.
Because of the cost savings that they would realize they installed printers centrally and throughout the 22 provinces to be able to print on demand and then have them networked together so that a central database could be used and monitored. The South Korean police expect to print somewhere between 35K-60K cards annually and look to install chips in the cards to help restrict access to controlled areas. You could also expect them to buy lanyards in large quantities which will help display the badges more prominently for civilians and other law enforcement officials to be easily recognize those on the force.