By: News 9
OKLAHOMA CITY -
The FBI delivered a prestigious award to an Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation agent for her efforts in solving a 2012 homicide.
William Cooksey, 44, was found dead in his driveway in Moore in April 2012. According to the FBI, the OSBI’s diligent efforts in identifying a suspect led to OSBI Criminalist Shana Wilson receiving the Biometric Identification Award nearly nine years later.
Kimberly Del Greco with the FBI said the OSBI delivered justice in the form of two palm prints. I didn t do this alone. This was a team effort, Wilson said.
Two palm prints were collected on a truck near Cooksey s body. The Automated Fingerprint Identification System matched those prints to Jason Louis Lane Diamond, who was later found guilty of first-degree manslaughter and sentenced to four years in prison.
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Himachal to get three new forensic units at Bilaspur, Nurpur, Baddi
Dr S K Pal, spokesperson of the state directorate of forensic services, said this is the third expansion of forensic infrastructure in the state and will help in ensuring scientific interventions in crime investigations at the district level. December 16, 2020 6:58:21 pm
The upcoming forensic units will cater to all three police ranges of the state, and will be operational 24x7.(Representational)
THE HIMACHAL Pradesh government has decided to establish three district forensic units at Bilaspur, Nurpur and Baddi, a government official said on Wednesday. Currently, Himachal has a state forensic science laboratory (SFSL) at Junga in Shimla district, and two regional FSLs at Dharamshala and Mandi.
Managing the biodata or a biometric database for 200million people is no ordinary feat. I am 34years old now, and I remember I was 17years at Bowen University in Iwo, Osun State when the National ID card was initially in the works during the tenure of President Olusegun Obasanjo around 2002/2003. I was not qualified to enroll for a National ID then because the age requirement was 18years and above. Although heads rolled for the mismanagement of that program, its execution remains shrouded in mystery.
There had been a few successfully established biometric databases that the country can leverage on – if harmonized and possibly improved. Two of those that readily come to mind are the INEC’s voters’ register and the CBN’s Bank Verification Number (BVN) database. A robust Automated Fingerprint Identification System (AFIS) could be curated from both agencies by the Federal Government if their biometric databases can be harmonized. The Nigerian Inter-Bank Settlement System (NIBS