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In view of all the various questions that have popped from
time to time regarding police imaging such as fingerprint
recognition, mug shots, and suspect sketching, you may
be interested in the following (non-Wang) imaging
vendor-supplied police imaging articles from the December
issue of Imaging magazine:

.  Officer types in descriptive keywords, matching mugshots pop up.
.  Police artists draw in mustaches and hats on the screen.
.  Shades of gray make tremendous difference in recognizing fingerprints.
.  MA police fix fuzzy fingerprints with fluorescent and halogen scanners.
.  Images on badges control prison visitors, preventing in-jail switches.
.  Bar codes on badges keep tabs on inmates.
.  Prisoner medical reports and behavior reports are scanned in.
.  Parking and speeding tickets get scanned in at headquarters.
.  US Customs officials match documents and invoices.
.  Richmond, CA police re-engineers workflow globally: use O/i APIs.

In addition, the January 18 issue of Federal Computer Week has a story
on the FBI's new imaging system to electronically link cartridges from
the same firearm.  (Gangs tend to share firearms, which can be identified
and linked by the cartridges they fire.)  Using "Drugfire", FBI officials
can examine a dispensed cartridge on Sun workstations and compare it with up
to 24 other cartridges simultaneously.  "We've had great success."  "Drugfire"
is employed throughout the Washington-Baltimore area and can be accessed by
six local law-enforcement agencies over a 56K wide-area network in a star
configuration.  The Washington-area prototype of the system led to three
software upgrades, which will now be available to local law-enforcement
agencies setting up similar systems said Robert Sybert, the developer and
manager of the "Drugfire" program.  He added that the Los Angeles area
will likely follow suit.  "We have a network in place, but it would
work as a stand-alone system, in say, the Midwest."

G. Norman Christenen, director of the FBI's Criminal Justice
Information Services Division, said "Drugfire" could reside on the
FBI's primary telecommunications backbone, NCIC 2000, which will soon
carry imaged fingerprints.

(Let me know if you need a US mail/international mail copy of these
articles.  If so, please send your hard copy address.  Thanks)

Michael.Willett@OFFICE.Wang.com