What does FALCON mean to you?

I'm an officer on the street.

FALCON improves and expands biometric identification. It enables the authorized user to tie a criminal's identification by fingerprints to a criminal history. It also enables the comparison of palm prints and the image management of scars, marks and tattoos.

FALCON utilizes livescan technology for obtaining a person's fingerprints and palm prints. Portable versions of this technology are available for use in patrol cars for roadside or at crime scenes. The scanned prints are then rapidly processed by FALCON, linking the identity to possible criminal histories, outstanding warrants, or other danger alerts. Additionally, FALCON can pull information from state and national databases.


I work in criminal justice.

Through a single web portal in FALCON, authorized criminal justice users can enter the system, input data, search for and generate reports, and, when necessary, correct information. The precision and speed of livescan biometric identification enhances the criminal justice process by providing another tool to ensure officer safety and promote public protection.

Examples:

• On-site livescans ensure identification of a subject from arrest to court action, incarceration, physical transfer, release and probation.

• Crime scene investigators can lift palm prints as well as fingerprints for identification by FALCON.

• Corrections officers can verify that a criminal's DNA is already on file. The elimination of the duplicate samples saves time and money.

• Probation officers and investigators can establish "watch lists" that send an alert when an offender is arrested.

• Sexual predators and offenders reporting to re-register are instantly biometrically identified and searched against   active wants and warrants.