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Sarasota News Leader August 30, 2013 Page 72 SHERIFF'S OFFICE FIRST AGENCY IN NATION WITH NEW FINGERPRINT SYSTEM Sheriff Tom Knight has announced that the Sarasota County Sheriff's Office is the first in the United States to utilize what is being called the world's most up-to-date and accurate fingerprint matching technology. The Sheriff's Office upgraded its 10-year old Automated Fingerprint Identification System (AFIS) to the Morpho Biometric Identification Solution (MorphoBIS), from MorphoTrak, a news release says. AFIS includes tenprint, palmprint and latent fingerprint processing, and it allows searches of county criminal databases, the Florida Department of Law Enforcement and the FBI, the release points out. The MorphoBIS system architecture allows the Sheriff's Office "to easily incorporate additional biometrics in the future such as face, tattoo and iris images," as needed, the release says. Simply put, Crime Stoppers relies upon the cooperation between the police the media and the community to provide a flow of information about crime and criminals. "MorphoTrak has continued to invest in increasing algorithm accuracy and overall performance for our AFIS technology, which translates directly to more crimes solved, more offenders off the streets and improved public safety," the release adds. "We are already getting hits on crime scene prints that were previously unidentified in the old system," said Brenda Viana, AFIS supervisor, in the release. "Even low-quality prints that couldn't be searched are being identified on the new system." Daniel Vassy, president and CEO of MorphoTrak, noted in the release, "As the fingerprint provider to the FBI and the majority of the law enforcement agencies in the U.S., we are quite proud that our cutting-edge technology is helping to create safer environments." % Call: (941) 366-TIPS (8477) Click: SarasotaCrimeStoppers.com Text "TIP109" plus your Text: message to CRIMES (274637) All submitted tips are secure and anonymous