The invention relates to a method of control of persons, in which various control/inspection steps are implemented at various control points intended to be crossed by a person, characterized by the implementation of the following operations: —when a person passes a first point: •acquisition of biometric data of the person, •generation of a secure identity token, on the basis of biometric and/or identification data of the person, the token being an encrypted biometric signature obtained on the basis of a biometric datum acquired on the person, •generation of a public identifier associated with said token and storage of said identifier in a data base in association with the identity tokens or the data on the basis of which they are generated, —when a person passes at least one other control point, •acquisition of an identity datum and/or of a biometric datum about the same biometric trait or traits of those about which the biometric datum was acquired on passing the first control point, and on the basis of which the identity token (J) was generated, •determination of the public identifier of the person, by implementing an authentication of said person on the basis of the datum or data acquired and of the data stored in the database. The invention also relates to a system for controlling and for inspection of persons for the implementation of the method.