There’s a new tool in town for fighting crime. And some law enforcement agencies are wondering how they made do for so long without the RapidID, a fingerprint scanner about the size of a smart phone.The confluence of biometric and mobile technologies is a really big deal.
“It’s instantaneous information,” said Sgt. Lamar Hester with the Atlanta Police Department.
The RapidID units are used to take fingerprints, mostly in the field.
“It’s revolutionizing the way we do business,” said Vernon Keenan, director of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, which led the pilot project testing the “mobile biometric fingerprint identification” units.
There's also a discussion of the privacy aspects.
