(Bredemarket Premium) The multiple self interests of AFIS customers and vendors

In a prior post, I spent some time identifying the multiple stakeholders at a city police department (in my example, my hometown of Ontario, California) that is procuring an automated fingerprint identification system.

If I may recycle what I previously said, here are those stakeholders:

• The field investigators who run across biometric evidence at the scene of a crime, such as a knife with a fingerprint on it or a video feed showing someone breaking into a liquor store.
• The examiners who look at crime scene evidence and use it to identify individuals.
• The people who capture biometrics from arrested individuals at livescan stations.
• The information technologies (IT) people who are responsible for ensuring that Ontario, California’s biometric data is sent to San Bernardino County, the state of California, perhaps other systems such as the Western Identification Network, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
• The purchasing agent who has to make sure that all of Ontario’s purchases comply with purchasing laws and regulations.
• The privacy advocate who needs to ensure that the biometric data complies with state and national privacy laws.
• The mayor (Paul Leon as I write this), who has to deal with angry citizens asking why their catalytic converters are being stolen from their vehicles, and demanding to know what the mayor is doing about it.
• Probably a dozen other stakeholders that I haven’t talked about yet, but who are influenced by the city’s purchasing decision.

Why is this important? And who are the multiple stakeholders OUTSIDE of the city police department?