RHON­DOR DOWLAT

The Au­to­mat­ed Fin­ger­print Iden­ti­fi­ca­tion Sys­tem is still down at the T&T Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) caus­ing hun­dreds of de­lays to peo­ple need­ing a Cer­tifi­cate of Char­ac­ter.

This was con­firmed to the Guardian Me­dia on Tues­day by the TTPS' cor­po­rate com­mu­ni­ca­tions unit.

It was, how­ev­er, not­ed that the prob­lem "is be­ing worked on by our tech­ni­cal team."

It has been over a month since the sys­tem went down.

On Feb­ru­ary 14, the TTPS is­sued a me­dia re­lease in­form­ing mem­bers of the pub­lic that ap­pli­ca­tions for Cer­tifi­cate of Char­ac­ter (CoC) ser­vices can­not be fa­cil­i­tat­ed at this time, due to a sys­tem mal­func­tion.

It al­so not­ed that "the TTPS is work­ing to re­store the sys­tem at this time to its op­ti­mal func­tion."

The TTPS has as­sured that when the CoC sys­tem is re­paired and op­er­a­tional the pub­lic will be in­formed.

"The TTPS apol­o­gis­es for all in­con­ve­niences for the dis­rup­tion in ser­vice and as­sures that all pos­si­ble ef­forts are be­ing made to rem­e­dy the sit­u­a­tion in the short­est pos­si­ble time­frame," the re­lease stat­ed.