You have this system called Red Wolf.

Okay, give more details.A person arrives and goes through a security check. He gives me his ID. I put it into [the system]. If it goes green on the computer, he goes through a security check and moves on. If it goes yellow, I have to call... Yellow is unidentified, unknown, something like that. There’s this number you call, the division, the DCL (District Coordination and Liaison office, a regional unit of the Civil Administration), and they tell you what to do. And if it’s red, there’s the protocol. You lock down the whole turnstile [at the checkpoint], call to have him picked up because he’s wanted for arrest.

And they come to get him?Yes.

Would that happen a lot?No. It never happened. They (the Palestinians) are not idiots. In the end, there are openings that aren’t this checkpoint.

And usually, when there’s a yellow, what would actually happen?It’s a computer bug. I never really had a yellow. For the most part, they’re all green, or they have no ID, and then you turn them around.

Can this system identify them even without putting in the ID [number]?Yes. There’s something like ten cameras. Once they arrive and pass through inside, it essentially takes photos, identifies them, to help you as the soldier standing there. It catches the face before [they enter], and it displays the face for you on the computer. If it’s someone who’s been coming through there a lot, the computer already knows them. It takes photos of everyone who passes there essentially. And you, as a soldier, a commander, standing there, can match the face to the IDs until the system learns [to recognize] the face. It recognizes him, and then he comes, and he’s already lit green for me even before he showed me an ID, and so it makes the process shorter for him, in theory.

And then, after you see green?He can go through the turnstile with no problem. So, if he passes me and ignores me, he gets stuck, and then he comes back. I give him the security check I want, and then I tell him, please, go on. I push a button that opens up the turnstile for him. He can get on with his life. These cameras essentially let you get the notice [on your computer] faster. The battalion had a competition who put in the most new names. It’s a system where, ultimately, you, as a person at the checkpoint, teach it. It takes photos. I can go into the photo after and then put in the ID.

So teaching means putting in an ID.Of the person, matching it to the photos. You match a face to a picture on the computer.

Is it called "Matches"?Yes, matches.

Does matches happen only there, with the automated photo system, or are there other places?There are, it’s part of the force’s missions, the patrols, ‘Ready Arrow’ (a reserve force). That’s when you go out with this Galaxy [cell phone].

Is that Blue Wolf?Blue wolf, yes.