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- From: IMAGING.CLUB@OFFICE.WANG.COM ("Imaging Club")
- Subject: Police using image processing
- Organization: Mail to News Gateway at Wang Labs
- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 22:56:51 GMT
- Message-ID: <199301272301.AA19422@tuna.wang.com>
- Sender: news@wang.com
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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
-