Daniel J. Driscoll Appointed to Printrak Board of Directors.ANAHEIM, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 23, 1998--Printrak International Inc. (Nasdaq:AFIS AFIS Automated Fingerprint Identification System AFIS Aerodrome Flight Information Service AFIS Armed Forces Radio and Television Service AFIS Airborne Flight Information System AFIS Automated Fingerprinting Identification System (Pakistan) ) Tuesday announced the selection of Daniel J. Driscoll, president of the company's digital justice division, to its board of directors. Driscoll fills a vacancy created by the resignation of Barry White, formerly president of TFP TFP Total Factor Productivity TFP Tradition, Family and Property TFP Time for Prints TFP Transference-Focused Psychotherapy TFP Trade for Prints (modeling) TfP Training for Peace (South Africa) Inc., a wholly-owned Printrak subsidiary. Driscoll joined Printrak in 1993 as director of marketing with an extensive business and technical background in imaging-related product development. He subsequently served as vice president of engineering and product development and in early 1998 was named to his present position. Driscoll was instrumental in the successful rollout of the industry-leading Printrak Series 2000 automated fingerprint identification system Automated Fingerprint Identification System (or AFIS) is a system to automatically match one or many unknown fingerprints against a database of known prints. This is done for various reasons, not the least of which is because the person has committed a crime. (AFIS), as well as development of the company's LiveScan (inkless) fingerprinting fingerprinting Act of taking an impression of a person's fingerprint. Because each person's fingerprints are unique, fingerprinting is used as a method of identification, especially in police investigations. and digital mugshot systems, which have fueled the company's rapid sales growth. "Dan Driscoll's experience and talent make him, perhaps, the most knowledgeable person in the company about strengths, weaknesses and our future direction," said Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Richard Giles. "He will be a valued addition to the corporate policy-making pol·i·cy·mak·ing or pol·i·cy-mak·ing n. High-level development of policy, especially official government policy. adj. Of, relating to, or involving the making of high-level policy: process." Company Information Printrak International (http://www.printrakinternational.com) is a leading worldwide supplier of integrated identification and information systems used primarily in criminal justice and public safety applications, and with increasing frequency in civil applications such as national I.D., welfare and immigration immigration, entrance of a person (an alien) into a new country for the purpose of establishing permanent residence. Motives for immigration, like those for migration generally, are often economic, although religious or political factors may be very important. control. Printrak's Digital Justice Solution(TM) provides networked fingerprint fingerprint, an impression of the underside of the end of a finger or thumb, used for identification because the arrangement of ridges in any fingerprint is thought to be unique and permanent with each person (no two persons having the same prints have ever been , photo imaging, computer-aided dispatch and automated records management systems. The company's systems serve approximately 700 national, state, county and municipal agencies in 36 countries.
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