fingerprints (a technical question) (FBI)

[JannAZ]

How does a small-town police department go about submitting a 10-print card to AFIS?

This would be a department too small/underfunded to have the LiveScan system available.

Thanks

Jann

[Cliffie]

They can just fax over enlargements of the prints, I assume.

[Phil306]

They can fax over the original fingerprint card to an agency which does. Or they can do it the old fashioned way. Mail the cards.

[TransplantedFloridian]

They can be mailed, but I have seen smaller municipal agencies that don't have the Livescan machines, use the machines at the Sheriff's Office. Since they've been available, I've never seen a Sheriff's Office that didn't have a LS machine, though I am by no means a world-traveler.

[Charles]

Has anyone ever proven no two fingerprints are the same? Or, is it just an assumption? (Twins exception.)

[texdav]

Normally when a perosn is arrest for most crimes first time a fingerprint card is done for local;state and FBI if a FBI classified crime.There never has been two the same;even twins.We are not talking DNA here.Calssifactio can be same but not the fingerprints when examined.

[JannAZ]

Thanks to all of you who took time to reply.

FAX! Of course. I keep forgetting about that invention....

Cheers,
Jann