By Ojas Mehta and Vipul Rajput

Posted On Thursday, November 12, 2009

SDS Ltd’s president Eran Drukman with SDS technical head Nir Lahav at Forensic Science Laboratory in Gandhinagar

A new suspect detection system will now help not only solve crimes but even prevent these from taking place more quickly and efficiently. The Gujarat Forensic Sciences University (GFSU) will soon introduce a programme to train forensic experts, senior police officers and research students on the Suspect Detection System (SDS) developed by an Israeli company.

While a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was inked between Eran Drukman, president of the SDS Company Limited, and GFSU Registrar Mehul Dave in Gandhinagar on Tuesday, the system was procured on September 25, 2009.

The SDS detects hostile intent in five minutes and has already helped the Gandhinagar FSL detect more than 150 crimes.

JM Vyas, the director general of Gandhinagar FSL said, “Suspects in more than 150 cases including those involved in terrorism, rape, murders, kidnapping, drug trafficking and the like had been put through the SDS and these crimes have been detected.”

Vyas said of the 150 cases most were from Gujarat whereas only 10 per cent were from other states. “Seven experts have been trained by the FSL on the use of the SDS,” he said. Drukman said the technology is in use in most of the advanced countries.

What does the system do

♦ The SDS not only detects hostile intent which is it’s primary function but also takes the biometric fingerprints and voice signature. A suspect caught even after five years and trying to hoodwink authorities by camouflaging his voice cannot escape the system due to it’s powerful voice recording capability. ♦ The unique capability of this system is that it tests the reaction of the suspect when a set of questions are asked and makes an analysis of the nervous system. It has got 15 parameters  based on which the exact intent of the suspect is judged. ♦ The SDS will not only acknowledge the suspect’s involvement but will also demarcate his level of involvement as to whether the suspect is financing the crime, is aware of the logistics or is actually the executor of terrorist activities.

“This is the most advanced system. It can tell you where the next terrorist attack will take place. The success rate of the system in tracking hostile rate has been very good,” Drukman said.

The SDS is a high-end system, almost a semi-server which can store data of as many as five lakh individuals. It comprises stored biometric data, video, has a scanner that can scan passports and identity cards, acoustic hearing aids and a high intensity audio recognition system.

Giving an insight about the system Drukman said, “The SDS not only detects hostile intent which is it’s primary function but also takes the biometric fingerprints and voice signature. A suspect caught even after five years and trying to hoodwink authorities by camouflaging his voice cannot escape the system due to it’s powerful voice recording capability.”

“The unique capability of this system is that it tests the reaction of the suspect when a set of questions are asked and makes an analysis of the nervous system. It has got 15 parameters  based on which the exact intent of the suspect is judged.”

“In case of terrorist having knowledge of exposives the SDS not only detects the kind of exposives but also extracts a lot of information that will help further investigation. The questions comes on a screen before the suspect and the immediate reaction to the questions on the nervous system is judged,” Drukman said.

The SDS will not only acknowledge the suspect’s involvement but will also demarcate his level of involvement as to whether the suspect is financing the crime, is aware of the logistics or is actually the executor of terrorist activities.

There are three things that the suspect detection system does. “First it helps detect hostile intent of the suspect, second it helps developing new technologies to add to the SDS and third, it will help to validate the technology by bringing criminals to book.”