Sarasota County, Florida Sheriff Tom Knight has a new tool that is allowing his office to find answers to old cold crime cases. The County recently completed an upgrade of their 10-year old Automated Fingerprint Identification System (AFIS), installing the world’s most up-to-date and accurate fingerprint matching technology, the Morpho Biometric Identification Solution (MorphoBIS), from MorphoTrak, a subsidiary of Morpho (Safran)
Sarasota County, Florida Sheriff Tom Knight has a new tool that is allowing his office to find answers to old cold crime cases. The County recently completed an upgrade of their 10-year old Automated Fingerprint Identification System (AFIS), installing the world's most up-to-date and accurate fingerprint matching technology, the Morpho Biometric Identification Solution (MorphoBIS), from MorphoTrak, a subsidiary of Morpho (Safran).
The AFIS includes tenprint, palmprint, and latent fingerprint processing, and allows searches of criminal databases at the County, the Florida Department of Law Enforcement and the FBI level. The MorphoBIS system architecture allows the County to easily incorporate additional biometrics in the future such as face, tattoo, and iris as needed.
“We are very pleased with our new system. Continuing our 17-year partnership with MorphoTrak was the right decision for the Sarasota County Sheriff's Office,” said Captain Jeffrey Bell of the Criminal Investigations Bureau.
“We are getting hits on old crime scene prints that were previously unidentified in our old system,” adds Brenda Viana, AFIS Supervisor."
“Morpho has continued to invest in increasing algorithm accuracy and overall performance for our AFIS technology. This translates directly to more crimes solved, more offenders off the streets, and improved public safety for Sarasota County as well as the hundreds of customers and their constituents that we serve worldwide,” says Daniel Vassy, President and CEO of MorphoTrak. “As the fingerprint provider to the FBI and the majority of the law enforcement agencies in the U.S., we are quite proud that our cutting-edge technology is helping create safer communities.”