

#FBI FINGERPRINT UPGRADE#
But many regional and local law enforcement systems don't yet capture all of that information, and will need to upgrade their own systems to reap the benefits from the new system. "Most booking stations are starting to gather all of the modalities - fingerprints, palm, and face and iris," says Jon Kevin Reid, assistant section chief in the CJIS division. FBI launches a new palm print database and search service the new system handles 200,000 requests per day with a response time of 10 seconds or less. The FBI launches Interstate Photo System Facial Recognition Pilot with three states, which allows searches against more than 15 million mug shots.Ī new latent fingerprint matching feature, which matches fingerprints found at a crime scene with those in the system, debuts, with nearly three times greater accuracy.

The FBI adds the Repository of Individuals of Special Concern, which includes "the worst of the worst" criminals, and launches a system that lets officers in the field use a mobile system to scan two fingers of the suspect and query NGI for a nearly instantaneous response. The Bureau begins work on the Integrated Automated Fingerprint ID System database (IAFIS) to automate fingerprint collection and retrieval.ĭevelopment of the $1.2 billion Next Generation Identification (NGI) system begins.ĬJIS delivers a more powerful computer system with a more accurate algorithm to match flat and rolled fingerprints to the criminal master file database. The FBI makes its first foray into biometrics, with fingerprints on index cards.įBI launches its first computer system created to search fingerprint files.įBI debuts the Criminal Justice Information Services Division.
