Kansas Automatically IDs Finger-, Palm Prints
Kansas Automatically IDs Finger-, Palm Prints
The Kansas Bureau of Investigations Special Agent in Charge, David Sim, announced the award of the new statewide contract for an Automated Fingerprint and Palm Print Identification System (AFPIS).
The new Kansas system, by Sagem Morpho, Inc., will include an online database of latents, fingerprints, palm prints, mugshots, scars, marks, tattoos as well as demographic data. These searchable criminal records available statewide in real-time via the web will dramatically increase the crime solving capabilities of all law enforcement agencies throughout Kansas and the region. It will be fully integrated with the State computerized criminal history (CCH) system, the FBI IAFIS and regional state systems.
The new system also includes the Morpho Archive and Retrieval System (MARS). This criminal records archive and retrieval system provides electronic storage for original electronic fingerprint and palm print transactions allowing for a completely paperless, easily searchable record management system.
This new system empowers Kansas law enforcement to link the criminal to his crime and close more cold cases, says Sim. A fellow MetaMorpho user identified 232 previously unidentified latent cases, simply by loading old latents into the new system.
For more information, visit: http://www.morpho.com