AN IDENTIKIT PICTURE IS SEEN ON A SCREEN IN BERLIN

An identikit picture is seen in the centre of a PC screen prior to a scan of some 1, 700 biometric characteristic marks through an U.S. criminal record, seen in rear, in Berlin December 12, 2001. The so-called "department of border managment solutions" of the German federal printing authority is testing various electronic solutions after German Interior Minister Otto Schily has proposed that identity cards, compulsory cards, should now include fingerprints and biometric information as Germany toughens its security in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks. REUTERS/Tobias Schwarz REUTERS