SAPS fingerprint system failure
PLEASE NOTE: THIS ISSUE HAS BEEN RESOLVED AND THE BACKLOG HAS BEEN HANDLED. The South African Police Service’s Automated Fingerprint Identification System (AFIS) has reportedly crashed, as cited by Die Burger. On Thursday, 6 December 2018, SAPS had more than 30,000 unprocessed claims that were backlogged on the system, and it unfortunately does not…