Face tech identifies man with two PPS numbers

Facial recognition technology used by the Department of Social Protection and Family Affairs detected an Iraqi national had PPS numbers in two different names in Ireland.

Face tech identifies man with two PPS numbers

Hiadar Alnoor, aged 39, with an address at Elm Park, Wilton, Cork, yesterday pleaded guilty to a charge of obtaining a PPS number in the name of Heyder Karrar Alowsawi at the Department of Social Protection and Family Affairs at the Intreo Centre, Kings Inns St, Dublin, on March 15, 2013.

Det Garda Kevin Heffernan, on secondment of the department, told Cork District Court yesterday the case related to the obtaining of a second PPS number.

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