How Bengaluru City Police Deployed Tamper-Evident Holographic Authentication to Eliminate Document Forgery
Rising document forgery was undermining public trust in official police-issued documentation across Bengaluru. Acviss deployed Certify's holographic security label technology to create physically impossible-to-replicate authentication on official documentation, enabling instant forgery detection at the point of verification and significantly reducing the administrative burden of manual document review processes across police divisions.
Acviss Certify holographic labels, tamper-evident authentication for official documentation
About Bengaluru City Police
A Public Institution Where Document Forgery Was Becoming a Systematic Problem
Bengaluru City Police is one of India's largest urban law enforcement organisations, responsible for public safety, law enforcement, and administrative processes across Karnataka's state capital. The organisation issues a wide range of official documentation, from verification certificates and clearance letters to administrative authorisations and legal process documents, that are used by citizens, employers, courts, and government bodies across Bengaluru and the state.
Advances in desktop publishing technology had made police-issued documentation increasingly easy to forge. Documents that previously required specialist printing equipment to replicate could now be reproduced to near-indistinguishable quality using standard office printers. Bengaluru City Police was receiving increasing reports of forged documentation being used in employment verification, court proceedings, and regulatory processes, but the verification process for identifying forgeries was still manual, time-consuming, and dependent on staff familiarity with authentic document formats.
The organisation needed a verification mechanism that did not rely on human pattern recognition, something that would allow field personnel to identify a forged document instantly, even when the forgery was technically sophisticated, and reduce the administrative processing time required for document verification requests across the city's police divisions.
Organisation Profile
The Challenge
Five Dimensions of the Document Forgery Problem
Bengaluru City Police identified five dimensions of the document security problem that their existing processes were unable to address, creating both operational risk and public trust implications for the organisation.
The Solution
Acviss Certify Holographic Labels: Authentication That Cannot Be Replicated at Any Print Resolution
Acviss deployed Certify's holographic security label technology across Bengaluru City Police's official documentation. Each label combined physical holographic security features, which cannot be replicated by standard printing equipment, with a unique Phantom Code QR that enables instant scan-based verification, independent of human pattern recognition.
Holographic Labels: Physical Security That Defeats Standard Printing
Acviss holographic security labels use physical microstructure-based optical effects that cannot be reproduced by inkjet, laser, or offset printing. When a label is viewed from different angles, the holographic pattern shifts in ways that no print reproduction can replicate. Any attempt to photocopy or digitally reproduce the label creates an obvious flat image that fails the visual inspection immediately. For documents where a quick visual check is required, such as documents presented in court or at employment interviews, the holographic feature provides an instant, no-equipment-required forgery detection capability.
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Scan-Based Digital Verification: Instant Confirmation Independent of Human Judgement
Each holographic label carries a unique Phantom Code QR, a non-cloneable code that cannot be photographed and reprinted at any resolution. When a verification officer, court official, or employer scans the QR on a police-issued document, the system returns an instant genuine/fake confirmation. No comparison against reference documents is required, and no specialist training is needed to perform the verification. This eliminated the manual verification bottleneck and reduced the administrative burden on police divisions processing external verification requests.
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What Changed for Bengaluru City Police After Holographic Deployment
The deployment of Acviss Certify holographic labels transformed the document verification process across Bengaluru City Police, eliminating forgery as a viable activity for bad actors and reducing the administrative overhead of legitimate verification requests simultaneously.
Deployment Impact
Instant Forgery Detection Across the City
Bengaluru City Police replaced time-consuming manual verification with instant scan-based holographic authentication for official certificates.
Manual process replaced entirely with instant scan verification. No specialist equipment required.
All certificates now carry tamper-proof holographic QR labels linked to a secure digital backend.
Significant reduction in manual document handling workload and risk of human error in verification.
"The team's approach to solving supply chain authentication has been methodical and effective. Implementing physical security that is also digitally verifiable, without requiring specialist equipment, was exactly the capability gap we needed filled. The scan-based verification has fundamentally changed how our documentation is trusted."
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