AFIS & Impression Evidence Quiz 6

The Automated Fingerprint Identification System. Primarily used by law enforcement agencies for identifying a person suspected of committing a crime.

An electronic storage system for known finger and palm prints.

Allows finger and palm print records (knowns) to be searched against each other. Allows latent prints collected from a crime scene (fingers and palms) to be searched against the stored database.

Developed by Lockheed Martin for the FBI.

Now many companies that design and sell AFIS systems. 1) Morpho/Printrak 2) AFIX Tracker 3) Cogent 4) NEC

Not all AFIS systems are integrated with each other. Example: Edmond PD uses AFIX Tracker, OSBI does not. Information cannot be directly transferred between operating systems.

OSBI is the repository of fingerprint records for Oklahoma. OSBI has the largest fingerprint database in the state.

Some states use “lights-out matching” in which the computer system makes the identification. This is BAD! NOT AFIS technology.

AFIS does not make identifications in latent print searches. Instead provides a candidate list based on the operators encoded information within the print.

A qualified examiner then has to visually compare the candidate prints (knowns/exemplars) to the latent print (crime scene print).

Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System.

Developed in 1999. Maintained by FBI. National system for storing, comparing, and exchanging fingerprint data in digital format.

Available to every law enforcement agency in the country. Allows OSBI to access and search latent prints through the FBI’s fingerprint files.

Search latent prints against criminal fingerprint database. Store ULF prints. Name searches.

Store unidentified latent prints from unsolved cases in the Unsolved Latent File (ULF). Search new 10-print fingerprint records against ULF.

Retrieve criminal history records. Perform latent print digital image enhancements. Create special 10-print fingerprint files.

Entries has to be limited to less than 30% of the FBI’s fingerprint files. Cannot store, analyze, or compare palm prints.

Next Generation Identification System.

FBI upgraded IAFIS to make it more robust. Developed NGI. NGI officially replaced IAFIS September 7, 2014.

AFIT. NPPS. Rap Back. RISC. IPS. IR.

Advanced Fingerprint Identification Technology.

National Palm Print System.

Repository for Individuals of Special Concern.

Iris Recognition.