The crimes that governments most want to tackle in their manifestos around illegal migration are enabled by forgeries to identity documents, however, many countries outside the EU haven’t even heard of the term ‘morphing’ in this context.
The ICMPD has 33 global offices to facilitate their work increasing awareness around ID document fraud. During this interview with Monika Weber.
The ICMPD has 33 global offices to facilitate their work increasing awareness about ID document fraud. During the interview with Monika Weber, Senior Advisor of the Border Management and Security Programme at ICMPD, we cover the important “triangle” of agencies cooperating to fight identity fraud.
The roles of the ICMPD are to provide tailor-made solutions for procedures and regulatory frameworks for document security, human resources for trained front line officers, and improvements to infrastructure.
We understand through the interview about the rise in visa and imposter frauds, which should be countered by enhancing cross-sharing of information.
“It’s not possible for some borders to be the anomaly”.
Whilst AI and web–based technologies advance the design of passports to be secure and hard to forge, humans and systems “need to be faster at detecting forgeries” as the fraudsters advance.
