NEC's Automated Palmprint System Identifies Hit and Run Suspect for San Francisco Police Department.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 18, 2001 "Within 5 Minutes, Suspect is Identified From Latent Palmprint Left At The Crime Scene" - SFPD SFPD San Francisco Police Department SFPD Supplemental Food Programs Division (USDA) SFPD School Facilities Planning Division (California) SFPD San Fierro Police Department NEC (NEC Corporation, Tokyo, www.nec.com, www.necus.com) An electronics conglomerate known in the U.S. for its monitors. In Japan, it had the lion's share of the PC market until the late 1990s (see PC 98). NEC was founded in Tokyo in 1899 as Nippon Electric Company, Ltd. Technologies, Inc., a world leader in the development and implementation of Automated Fingerprint Identification Systems (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) ), announced today that the San Francisco Police Department The San Francisco Police Department, also known as the SFPD, is the police department of the City and County of San Francisco. The department's motto is the same as that of the city and county: Oro en paz, fierro en guerra, archaic Spanish for (SFPD) generated a very important investigative lead since acquiring an NEC Automated Palmprint Identification System. Since the NEC Palmprint Identification System became operational on July 16, 2001, the San Francisco Police Department has identified a suspect in a hit and run case. According to Inspector Mike Gaynor of the San Francisco Police Department, "This was only the 4th latent palm entered into our recently procured palmprint system. The case was a vehicular `hit and run' case that just recently occurred. A latent palm print taken from the door area of a stolen car found at the crime scene was searched as the Hypothenar area of the left hand. The search took only 5 minutes to identify a suspect who had several prior arrests. Without the NEC Palm AFIS system this case would still remain unsolved." The San Francisco Police Department purchased the automated palmprint identification system in April 2001. Prior to this system, palmprint matching was rarely used because investigators had to manually compare latent prints against prints sitting in a repository, which was very time and labor intensive Labor Intensive A process or industry that requires large amounts of human effort to produce goods. Notes: A good example is the hospitality industry (hotels, restaurants, etc), they are considered to be very people-oriented. See also: Capital Intensive, Trading Dollars . This new automated system currently holds over 200,000 converted subjects with a design size of 350,000 subjects. The automated palmprint system can identify a suspect in minutes, thereby, empowering investigators to make quick identifications and arrests. Palm prints make up approximately 30 percent of the prints taken from crime scenes. With the introduction of an automated palm print identification technology, law enforcement agencies A law enforcement agency (LEA) is a term used to describe any agency which enforces the law. This may be a local or state police, federal agencies such as the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) or the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). around the globe are now able to expand their search capabilities to include searching latent palm prints. The NEC Automated Palmprint System provides agencies with a higher level of technology that delivers an accurate solution for otherwise "impossible" cases. Moreover, the investment in this revolutionary technology will, ultimately, assist agencies in solving crime within the community. NEC's Technologies' superior matching technology allows investigators to process any latent palmprint -- a palmprint found at a crime scene -- with the same ease as NEC's world renowned automated fingerprint identification systems. The result is rapid identification, capture, and incarceration Confinement in a jail or prison; imprisonment. Police officers and other law enforcement officers are authorized by federal, state, and local lawmakers to arrest and confine persons suspected of crimes. The judicial system is authorized to confine persons convicted of crimes. of perpetrators -- significantly improving public safety. As news of the palmprint hit made by the SFPD broke, Tony Doonan, Vice President, NEC Technologies' AFIS Division stated, "The success experienced by San Francisco is a perfect example of the increasingly important role technology is playing in law enforcement today. We are proud to be part of law enforcement efforts to reduce crime throughout the west". NEC Technologies' AFIS Division NEC Technologies' AFIS Division is recognized as an industry leader in biometrics technologies having developed some of the first and finest automated methods of identifying people by their fingerprint and palmprint characteristics. NEC Technologies AFIS Division provides identification solutions for law enforcement, government, and commercial applications requiring network security. Headquartered in Gold River, California Gold River is a census-designated place (CDP) that is often mistakenly considered part of Rancho Cordova, a city Sacramento County, California. The population was 8,023 at the 2000 census. Gold River is a planned community just outside the City of Sacramento. , NEC Technologies, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary Wholly Owned Subsidiary A subsidiary whose parent company owns 100% of its common stock. Notes: In other words, the parent company owns the company outright and there are no minority owners. of NEC Corporation, is a leading manufacturer of computer peripherals and other technology products for the North American North American named after North America. North American blastomycosis see North American blastomycosis. North American cattle tick see boophilusannulatus. market. Information on NEC AFIS and its products can be obtained by calling 800/777-AFIS or on the web at http://www.nectech.com/afis. |
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