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That's according to a release issued by the Alaska Department of Public Safety.
It's explained that the upgrade will allow the department to increase efficiency with an improved algorithm, or sequence of instructions, that decreases the amount of manual processing that must occur for a fingerprint to be processed.
In addition, the processing match rate improves drastically from an average of 40 percent to 70 percent. The department says the increase will allow forensic scientists and investigators to solve crimes faster.
The release states that Alaska’s biometric database contains over 600,000 fingerprint records collected from arrested individuals, statutory employment fingerprint submissions, and latent fingerprints collected during criminal investigations.