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| Alabama Jail going high-tech for prints |
| By The Messenger |
| Published: 10/06/2003 |
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The Pike County, Ala. Jail is going high-tech. For the past two weeks the Pike County Jail has been implementing new technology to fingerprint newcomers to the jail and corrections officers. Officers no longer have to use ink to fingerprint suspects. Instead, they can do it all on the computer and automatically send the fingerprints to the Alabama Bureau of Investigation or any other agency. Pike County Investigator Bob Bradbury said the Pike County Sheriff's Department worked for three months to install the equipment, which has its own dedicated power line. "It'll be a good tool for us and cut down on the number of fingerprint rejections," he said. After fingerprinting a suspect, officers had to mail the fingerprint cards to ABI in Montgomery. If the fingerprints were smudged or broken, ABI would send them back and officers would have to go through the process again. The computer, however, instantly tells an officer if the fingerprint is usable after it is scanned. "It's slower, but it's more accurate," said corrections officer Ryan Ellis. "We're the only agency in the county that has this technology." The computer program also gives the officers more room to list alias names and identifying information such us scars, tattoos or physical conditions. The program also has the capability to scan palms, but Ellis said they don't have the extensions necessary to do that. Right now, department policy only allows Pike County officers to use the computer; suspects arrested by the Troy Police Department, Alabama State Troopers or another agency will still use the ink cards. In the future, Ellis said, it's a possibility that the county will also use the equipment for school employees or other employees who need to be fingerprinted. |
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