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Stockton Police Hope to Expand Use of Mobile Fingerprint Capability

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Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007

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Police in Stockton, Calif., would like to expand the use of a mobile fingerprint identification system supplied by Cogent Systems [COGT] that they began using earlier this year under a crime fighting pilot project, says an official with the city's police department. Initially Stockton police were primarily using Cogent's BlueCheck portable fingerprint scanner over 200 times a day to identity jail inmates, Tom Hennig, the police department's program manager for the pilot projects, says at the recent Biometric Consortium Conference…

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