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| Electronic booking comes to the Fulton County Jail |
| By areawidenews.com - Richard Irby |
| Published: 03/23/2012 |
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The days of ink stained fingers and blurry fingerprints are coming to an end at the Fulton County Sheriff's Department. On Tuesday, March 13, deputies and reserve deputies gathered at the jail to learn to use the Safran Morpho Trak, an all-in-one, computerized system to book a criminal suspect. "Once someone is booked, this system will send the information directly to the Arkansas State Police in Little Rock," Mark Dague explained, as he demonstrated how to operate the machine. "The information it receives is checked in the state's database to match against past arrests, and to see if the suspect's prints have been matched in connection with unsolved crimes." When someone is arrested, the Morpho Trak will take their mug shot using a mounted digital camera. The deputy or jail employee will input information about the arrestee, including name and address, physical characteristics and the charges being filed. Perhaps most importantly, it will obtain high quality digital fingerprints -- and let the operator know if they are not good enough. Dague showed how easy the system is to use by rolling his fingerprints, and taking impressions of his hands by placing them on a green lighted tablet. As the prints are received and processed, they appear on a monitor above the tablet. "That one is a 'C' (grade)," Dague said, after putting a print into the system. "My hand might be sweaty or something like that, so I'll delete it and do it again until I get at least a 'B'." The new system carries a price tag of about $40,000, but it was supplied to the Fulton County Sheriff's Department by the Arkansas State Police. "From my years of working for the state police, I know what kind of resources they have to help local law enforcement," Sheriff Buck Foley told The News. "I've been encouraging them to help us modernize our operations." Besides the Morpho Trak System, the sheriff said the state police are also supplying his department with five radar units to be used to monitor for speeding, and eight "stop sticks" which are used to help stop vehicles during police chases. Read More. |
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