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Law Enforcement Services
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Brian O'Keefe, Administrator • Biography
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Crime Information Bureau
Crime Information Bureau - AFIS
Automated Fingerprint Identification System
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The Crime Information Bureau (CIB) operates the state's Automated
Fingerprint Identification System (AFIS) providing identification
information to all law enforcement agencies in Wisconsin. This
system serves as the central repository for fingerprint
identification records relating to persons arrested throughout the
state.
AFIS is a computer-based system for reading, cataloging,
searching, matching and storing fingerprints, palm prints, latent
prints and related demographic data. This system interfaces with the
FBI's Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System (IAFIS),
providing Wisconsin agencies access to nationwide and international
criminal justice information.
The Department's AFIS accepts and processes fingerprints of
subjects arrested or taken into custody from booking facilities
throughout the state. The system processes fingerprints for the
purpose of establishing positive identification and creating an
individual's criminal history record. Also, crime scene latent
fingerprints are searched through AFIS in an attempt to identify
suspects.
The Department's original AFIS was installed in 1993. A major
upgrade was completed during the summer of 2003 and again in the fall
of 2010. Currently the repository contains over 1.3 million fingerprint records. AFIS
processes approximately 45,000 tenprint, latent print, palm print
and two finger identification and verification transactions per month.
This is also a statewide-shared AFIS that provides access to the
state's Crime Laboratories in Madison, Milwaukee and Wausau, the
Madison, Green Bay, Racine and Milwaukee Police Departments as well
as the Milwaukee County Sheriff's Office.
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