Largest Police Department in Australia Selects FaceIt -Enabled Law Enforcement Management...

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MINNETONKA, Minn. & JERSEY CITY, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 22, 2001

New South Wales Police Department Contract Awarded to

Visionics' Partner ImageWare Systems

Visionics Corporation (Nasdaq:VSNX), the worldwide leader in identification

technologies and systems, announced today that the New South Wales Police Department in Australia has selected a FaceIt(R) enabled law enforcement management software system designed by business partner ImageWare Systems. New South Wales Police Department is the largest in Australia, and is one of the largest police departments in the world.

ImageWare's Crime Capture System(TM)and Face ID(TM) software systems use Visionics' FaceIt(R) technology to allow customers to quickly create, archive, search, retrieve and share digital photographs and criminal history records.

"Due to its robustness in working with a variety of image qualities and formats, including composite sketches and live images, FaceIt(R) has become the de facto standard within the law enforcement community," said Dr. Joseph J. Atick, president and CEO of Visionics Corporation. "Our strong partnership with ImageWare ensures delivery of superior systems to meet continued market demand and we are pleased to expand these offerings to the Australian market."

Jim Miller, ImageWare chairman and chief executive officer, said, "The award is part of a large-scale pilot project, which could result in other services within Australia adopting the system. ImageWare products will provide the New South Wales Police Service with the latest software for managing criminal history records and photos, integrating seamlessly with the leading facial recognition technology. This will allow photo line-ups to be created quickly and easily for distribution to police officers. The contract award is in keeping with our strategy of expanding geographically, partnering with major integrators, and broadening our opportunities for growth."

Nola Watson, New South Wales Police Service Director, Information Intelligence Centre said, "This system will revolutionize the way police use information and technology to identify offenders and reduce crime."

FaceIt(R)-enabled criminal justice systems are used by numerous law enforcement agencies throughout the U.S., including the New Jersey State Police, Department of Public Safety in Arizona, Los Angeles Sheriff Department and San Antonio Sheriff Department. In addition, FaceIt(R) technology is becoming an integral component in enhancing CCTV systems, as illustrated by its use in the Newham Borough of London and in Birmingham City Center, also in the UK.

About ImageWare Systems

ImageWare Systems, Inc. (AMEX: IW) develops, sells and supports a suite of modular software products known as C.R.I.M.E.S.(R) used by law enforcement and public safety agencies to manage criminal digital images and data. Through its G&A Imaging, ITC and Goddard subsidiaries, ImageWare also develops, sells and supports software used to create digital identification cards and documents. For more information, see ImageWare's web site at www.iwsinc.com.

About Visionics Corporation

Visionics Corporation (Nasdaq:VSNX) is the worldwide leader in identification technologies and systems. Through its respective business lines - FaceIt(R), live scan, IBIS and BNP - the company delivers enabling technology, platforms, products and systems for biometric identification, with a specific focus on face recognition and forensic quality fingerprint identification. The award-winning FaceIt(R) technology enables a broad range of products and applications built by partners (OEMs, VARs and system integrators). These include enhanced CCTV systems, identity fraud applications and authentication systems for information security, access control, travel, banking and e-commerce. The TENPRINTER and FingerPrinter CMS live scan systems are the most widely used by government agencies, law enforcement, airports, banks and other commercial institutions in the US. The IBIS is a revolutionary mobile identification system that combines expertise in biometric capture and connectivity, and is capable of capturing both forensic quality fingerprints and photographs for transmission to law enforcement and other legacy databases. Finally, the BNP is a revolutionary platform for building scalable biometric solutions. These lines of business as a whole are reflective of Visionics' leadership position in the biometric industry and commitment to the innovation of identification technologies.

More information on Visionics can be accessed via the Company web site at http://www.visionics.com or by calling Frances Zelazny, Director of Corporate Communications at +1 201-332-9213.

This news release contains forward-looking statements that are subject to certain risks and uncertainties that may cause actual results to differ materially from those projected on the basis of such forward-looking statements. Such forward-looking statements are made based on management's beliefs, as well as assumptions made by, and information currently available to, management pursuant to the "safe-harbor" provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. For a more complete description of these and other risk factors which may affect the future performance of Visionics Corporation, see "Risk Factors" in Digital Biometrics' Annual Report on Form 10-K for the period ended September 30, 2000 and its quarterly report on Form 10-Q for the period ended December 31, 2000, Form 8-K dated February 15, 2001 and the related Form 8-K/A, all of which have been filed with the SEC.