Bexar County Sheriff’s Department in Texas has joined the growing list of facilities to install biometric technology in order to improve efficiency. NEC Corporation of America has installed the NEC Automated Fingerprint Identification System (AFIS) and FastID Booking and Release Identification software. The booking process is improved because County staff can now identify arrestees by matching prints in as little as 30 seconds in their own database of previous arrests or crime scenes rather than relying on looking information up in the State system. The system has already led to a lead on an unsolved 1993 homicide. The NEC AFIS and FastID system consists of a core site with remote input devices and features tenprint and latent transactions, palmprint and slap matching, and has access to the State database. The Sheriff’s Office is also planning on installing the NEC MobileID system this year. ![[end]](/resources/bullet/archive-4.gif)
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