Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System

FACT SHEET

· IAFIS searches the fingerprints of over 65.2 million subjects in the National Criminal History Record File

(over 244.1 million arrest cycles).

- The civil file contains over 27 million subjects.

- Information is submitted by over 86,000 criminal justice agencies (international, federal, state, and local)

- Increases by 9,000 - 11,000 subjects each day

- Database includes approximately:

----- 616,549 Active Wants

----- 530,109 Sex Offenders

· Interstate Photo File has 7,918,771 million photos for over 4,833,546 million records

· IAFIS identified 24,479 fugitives in September as a result of tenprint processing

· Yearly Volume Tenprint Fingerprint Submissions to IAFIS:

- Fiscal Year 2010 to date – 4.9 million

- Fiscal Year 2009 – 52.7 million

- Fiscal Year 2008 – 35.5 million

· Average monthly transaction volume – 160,047 per day

· Response time goals:

- Criminal Electronic Fingerprint Submissions – 95% within 2 hours

(Criminal Answer Required)

- Civil Electronic Fingerprint Submissions – 98.8% within 24 hours

(Miscellaneous Applicant, Federal Applicant No Charge, Federal Applicant User Fee, and

Non-Federal User Fee Prints)

· Record High Receipts – 04/23/2009 – 205,968 within 24 hours

· Record High Completions – 07/21/2009 – 200,254 within 24 hours

OCTOBER 2009

· Tenprint Criminal Submission Rate (related to arrests, inquiries, etc.) – 64.87%

- 98.38% submitted electronically

Tenprint Civil Submission Rate (related to employment/licensing screening, etc.) – 35.13%

- 97.25% submitted electronically

· Electronic fingerprint submission rate – 97.98%

· Manual (paper) fingerprint submission rate – 2.026%

· Response times:

- Criminal Electronic Fingerprint Submissions – 98.824% completed within 2 hours

- Average Response Time - 8 minutes & 13 seconds

- Civil Electronic Fingerprint Submissions – 99.54% completed within 24 hours

- Average Response Time – 49 minutes & 16 seconds