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If the Cheops system was at the heart of the mess surrounding the failed arrest of three suspected jihadists income Tuesday afternoon Syria via Turkey? That at least is the explanation given for, in part, the return of the three suspects Tuesday afternoon, on French soil, without the latter not being pursued. The Department of Defense has recognized a quack, namely, computer software failure Cheops, a system of passport controls
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What is the monitoring system Cheops The Cheops software acronym? Traffic hierarchical Operational Records, Secure Police, was established in 2001, reports JDD .
The system identifies almost all files of police and gendarmerie, as Computerized file Terrorism, File General Intelligence, the National Transboundary File or File Wanted Persons. In summary, this software includes all sorts of people, including those that may threaten the security of the state, usually identified in the “S” file.
By controlling passports, through software Cheops, the police can immediately find out if passengers are stuck or not
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What are the limits of this software Except that all travelers arriving on French soil? are not systematically checked upon arrival. The agents of the border police do not actually check the identities of thousands of passengers getting off planes every day.
“There is a huge commercial pressure” airport companies to reduce the queues of wait when there is so many people “control the fewest passengers,” said a police source. Thus, a French coming in from Syria, via Istanbul, may well slip through the net. Especially if he has a
French identity card
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But the real limitation of this software is based on its technical shortcomings. According to police, the Cheops system is regularly broken. “We have daily outages in services. Such breakdowns are common because we have computer systems with motors of 2CV” laments Christophe Rouget Union executives of Homeland Security, told France Info.
Tuesday afternoon precisely, the police did not have access to the file of wanted persons. Between 14 and 17 hours, Cheops their system was down for maintenance. And in these cases, there is no fallback
If it is down for maintenance or breakdown, the gate control is blind. “It effectively prevents the checks” recognizes a police source. Which explains why, on arrival at the airport in Marseille, the three jihadists were not worried.
To shed light on these problems, the interior minister called for an investigation general inspection of the administration and that of the national police.
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