Fact Sheet

Fact Sheet

• IAFIS searches the fingerprints of over 71.8 million subjects in the National Criminal History Record File (over 317.3 million arrest cycles).
  • The automated civil file contains an estimated 34.0 million subjects.
  • The database includes approximately:
  • 650,107 Active Wants
    
  • 586,236 Sex Offenders
• More than 18,000 local, state, federal, and international partners electronically submit to IAFIS 
• Interstate Photo File has 13,777,081 million photos for over 7.52 million records
• IAFIS identified 27,206 fugitives in April 2012 as a result of tenprint processing

• Yearly Volume Tenprint Fingerprint Submissions to IAFIS:
  • Fiscal Year 2012 to date – 30.5 million
  • Fiscal Year 2011 – 50.8 million
  • Fiscal Year 2010 – 61.3 million
• Average transaction volume: 143,246 per day
• Record High Receipts: 04/30/2010 – 300,113 within 24 hours
• Record High Completions: 04/30/2010 – 297,816 within 24 hours

April 2012

• Electronic fingerprint submission rate – 98.4 percent
• Manual (paper) fingerprint submission rate – 1.6 percent
  
• Tenprint Criminal Submission Rate (related to arrests, inquiries, etc.): 52.3 percent
  • 99.1 percent submitted electronically
• Tenprint Civil Submission Rate (related to employment/licensing screening, etc.): 47.7 percent
  • 97.6 percent submitted electronically
• Response times:
  • Tenprint Rapsheet Request (TPRS)
    Average Response Time – 11.6 seconds
    98.81 percent completed within 15 seconds
  •  Criminal Electronic (CAR) Fingerprint Submissions
    Average Response Time – 4 minutes and 1 seconds
    99.75 percent completed within one hour
  • Civil Electronic Fingerprint Submissions
    Average Response Time – 1 hour 20 minutes and 34 seconds
    97.19 percent completed within 12 hours
  • Electronic Non-Federal User Fee (NFUE) Fingerprint Submissions
    Average Response Time - 27 seconds
    99.85 percent completed within 15 minutes
  • Criminal Fingerprint Card Processing Non-Urgent (CPNU) Submissions
    Average Response Time – 32 minutes and 19 seconds
    100 percent completed within 72 hours

Latent Information Services

• Yearly Palmprint Submissions to IAFIS:
• April 2012 – 173,136
  
• Fiscal Year 2012 to date – 1,168,811
  
• Daily average – 5,487
• Fiscal Year 2011 – 1,157,063 
• Daily average – 3,170
• Fiscal Year 2010 – 916,825
• Daily average – 2,512
• Latent Fingerprint Feature Searches (LFFS) Processed:

• April 2012 – 21,881
• Fiscal Year 2012 to date – 148,366
• Fiscal Year 2011 – 203,715
• Fiscal Year 2010 – 155,625
• Latent Fingerprint Image Searches (LFIS) Processed:

• April 2012 – 1,674
• Fiscal Year 2012 to date – 11,717
• Fiscal Year 2011 – 14,058
• Fiscal Year 2010 – 8,272
• Unsolved Latent File (ULF) Deposits:

• April 2012 - 8,437
• Fiscal Year to date - 63,026
• April 2012 - Database Size* – 474,331
• Fiscal Year 2011 - Database Size* – 486,299
• Fiscal Year 2010 - Database Size* – 387,189

• Unsolved Latent Match (ULM) Searches:
• April 2012 – 1,220
• Fiscal Year 2012 to date – 8,530
• Fiscal Year 2011 – 14,311
• Fiscal Year 2010 – 11,181

Biometric Services Section
Statistical Trending, Analysis & Reporting Group
May 15, 2012