Fact Sheet

Fact Sheet

• IAFIS searches the fingerprints of over 74.0 million subjects in the National Criminal History Record File.
  • The automated civil file contains an estimated 36.8 million subjects.
  • The database includes approximately:
  • 668,398 Active Wants
  • 608,693 Sex Offenders
• More than 18,000 local, state, federal, and international partners electronically submit to IAFIS
• Interstate Photo File has 15,821,994 million photos for over 8.3 million records
• IAFIS identified 25,588 fugitives in February 2013 as a result of tenprint processing
• Yearly Volume Tenprint Fingerprint Submissions to IAFIS:
  • Fiscal Year 2013 to date – 23.7 million
  • Fiscal Year 2012 to date – 58.0 million
  • Fiscal Year 2011 – 50.8 million

• Average transaction volume: 155,379 per day
• Record High Receipts: 04/30/2010 – 300,113 within 24 hours
• Record High Completions: 04/30/2010 – 297,816 within 24 hours

February 2013

• Electronic fingerprint submission rate – 98.96 percent
• Manual (paper) fingerprint submission rate – 1.04 percent
• Tenprint Criminal Submission Rate (related to arrests, inquiries, etc.): 52.30 percent
  • 99.80 percent submitted electronically
• Tenprint Civil Submission Rate (related to employment/licensing screening, etc.): 47.70 percent
  • 98.10 percent submitted electronically
• Response times:

  Tenprint Rapsheet Request (TPRS) Average Response Time – 25.5 seconds: 99.34 percent completed within 15 seconds Criminal Electronic (CAR) Fingerprint Submissions Average Response Time – 3 minutes and 37 seconds: 99.39 percent completed within one hour Civil Electronic Fingerprint Submissions Average Response Time – 43 minutes and 56 seconds 99.59 percent completed within 12 hours Electronic Non–Federal User Fee (NFUE) Fingerprint Submissions Average Response Time – 1 minute and 25 seconds 99.63 percent completed within 15 minutes Criminal Fingerprint Card Processing Non–Urgent (CPNU) Submissions Average Response Time – 12 minutes and 22 seconds 100 percent completed within 72 hours

Latent Information

• Yearly Palmprint Submissions to IAFIS:
  – February 2013 – 193,825
     Daily average – 6,922
     FY2013 Database Size: 5,911,960
  – Fiscal Year 2012 – 2,119,426
     Daily average – 5,791
  – Fiscal Year 2011 – 1,157,063
     Daily average – 3,170
  
  
• Latent Fingerprint Feature Searches (LFFS) Processed:
  FY13 Average Response Time – 1 hour, 6 minutes and 42 seconds
  – February 2013 – 15,429
  – Fiscal Year 2012 – 236,344
  – Fiscal Year 2011 – 203,715

• Latent Fingerprint Image Searches (LFIS) Processed:
  FY13 Average Response Time – 1 hours, 45 minutes and 30 seconds
  – February 2013 – 1,429
  – Fiscal Year 2012 – 20,456
  – Fiscal Year 2011 – 14,058

• Unsolved Latent File (ULF) Growth:
  – February 2013 – 6,433
  – Fiscal Year 2013 – Database Size – 436,099
  – Fiscal Year 2012 – Database Size – 492,099
  – Fiscal Year 2011 – Database Size – 486,299
  
  
• Unsolved Latent Match (ULM) Notifications:
  – February 2013 – 1,406
  – Fiscal Year 2013 – to date - 6,485
  – Fiscal Year 2012 – 15,962
  – Fiscal Year 2011 – 14,311

Biometric Services Section
Quality Improvement Unit
Statistical Trending, Analysis & Reporting Group
February 6, 2013