Western Identification Network Inc.

Circulation 3,000

WIN will now begin publishing its Newsletter on aquarterly basis; months for publication will beJanuary, April, July and October.

Appearing in each publication will be a GuestArticle submitted by a Central Site member whichmay be written about fingerprint techniques, AFIS,interesting fingerprint cases, the agencies Mission,etc.

GUEST ARTICLE

Our first article has been written and submitted byChief A.D. Jones of the Idaho Bureau of CriminalIdentification.

The Idaho Bureau of Criminal Identification’s AFISusers are divided into two sections: Records (tenprint) and Identification (latents). Five fingerprinttechnicians from the Records Section searchbookings and applicants, and five personnel withvaried levels of latent expertise handle the latentfunction.

Fingerprint Technicians (La’Rhetta Becker, LarryChilders, Cindy Deen, Karen Wallace, and Jo AnnWard) process all criminal arrest and applicantfingerprint cards through AFIS. During thepreceding 12 month period, 30,035 fingerprintcards have been processed through AFIS. Duringthis period, 2336 identifications were made onsubjects who were not previously identified by aname check. Of these identifications, 1170 wereidentified against Idaho records and 1166 wereidentified against records of the other WINparticipants.

When a record is identified in another WIN state,the Records Section notifies the arresting agencyvia the Idaho Law Enforcement Telecommuni-cations System (ILETS), of same and provides thecontributing Agency with the out-of-state S!D for“FQ” purposes.

This Bureau believes the success of AFIS lies withthe quality of the data base. To this end, we“preach” at every function throughout the Statethe need for quality rolled fingerprint impressions.At the State level, we constantly upgrade thequality of the data base with roiled printsubstitutions (RPS).

Five personnel of the Identification Section allmake contributions to the effort. Questioned

Document Examiner Jack Jaquess [former LatentPrint Examiner] selects, enhances and traces thelatents. Fingerprint Technician Maria Egurenenters the latents into AFIS, backed up by LatentExaminer Ray York. Section Supervisor BobKerchusky examines the AFIS images from theten candidate list and makes the identification on“hits”. Evidence Technician Christine Phernettonmaintains records and produces Identificationreports, and communications.

All latents are enhanced on the Bureau’s CrimProImage Enhancement System prior to tracing,resulting in significant improvement both in latentquality and “hit” rates. Ten candidates are pulledon all cases, and enough hits are obtained fromthe #!!I through #lO candidates to justify the extraeffort. Maria Eguren routinely conducts LRl’s(Latent Re-inquiries) on registered latents from theprevious two years, pulling images only fromcandidate list SID numbers issued subsequent tothe last round or LRl’s. This technique hasresulted in 76 “hits” from Januarv to November1992. The Ident. Section team effort hasin success beyond expectations.

WIN RECEIVES CSG AWARD

The Council of State Governments,selected WIN as its award winnerInnovations Transfer Program for 1992.

resulted

(CSG),in their

“Since 1975, the Council has undertaken anannual review and selection of innovativeprograms successfully implemented by individualstates. In order to even be considered , a state’sprogram must meet a set of criteria designed toensure that it has dealt with a significant problemin an effective and innovative manner and that ithas the potential to be transferred to other states”.

Dennis DeBacco, Chairman of WIN, accepted theaward on behalf of WIN during the awardsceremony at CSG’s Annual Meeting in DesMoines, Iowa last December.

WIN continues to be an example to lawenforcement agencies nationwide of what can beaccomplished through a cooperative workingspirit.

Each and every member of WIN can take pride inits contributions which have made the CSG awardpossible and given us national recognition for a

job well done. MONTANA

WIN BEGINS SECOND GENERATION

WIN’s Board of Director’s approves 5 year userneeds assessment project.

WIN’s agreement with NEC Technologies willexpire on March 1, 1996, therefore, WIN musthave in place an effective and efficient plan tomeet the growing needs and interest of itsmembers. WIN staff is presently undertaking anambitious time schedule to develop a five (5) yearstrategic plan to be completed by June of 1993.

A users assessment questionnaire was distributedto each board member last October. There werefour (4) major areas of interest, inclusive of thefollowing:

* AFIS;* Live Scan;* Mug Shot; and* Centralized Criminal History System.

COMMUNICATIONS UPDATE

Everything is still a “GO” for WIN to switch toNLETS telecommunications network effectiveMarch 1, 1993. WIN plans to maintain its existingAT&T lines during the switch over until all sitesare successfully connected and operational.

FUAA TO FUAA UPDATE

After a few software modifications, the Full UseAccess Agency (FUAA) network is in place andoperational. WIN members can now accessseven additional California sites which include:

* Orange County;* LA Sheriff’s Dept.* IA Police Dept.* San Bernardino/Riverside;* Alameda/Contra Costa;* San Diego; and* San Francisco.

WIN AFIS ACCOMPLISHMENTS

IDAHO

Hit and Hits and More Hits

Winter temperatures should be above normal thisyear with the number of latent identificationsheating up the Bureau of Criminal Identification inBoise! From September 17, 1992 throughDecember 2, 1992, Idaho has reported 55 latentidentifications with NO end in sight!

As of January 1, 1993, Montana’s AFIS was on-line and operational. This endeavor officiallybegan on June 22, 1992 as the State receivedpreliminary funding approval for their AFISacquisition.

From June 22 to December 31, 1992, Montana,NEC and WIN personnel achieved the purchase,installation, contractual agreements, financialanalysis and conversion of over 45,000 fingerprintcards. On behalf of the WIN staff, we wish tothank Walt Joyce and his staff as well as NECTechnologies for their cooperation in bringingMontana on line within such a short time frame.

We also extend our thanks to Jeff Artz of theNevada Criminal Records Repository forconducting a week long AFIS training class inHelena, Montana. Jeff will also be conducting thefollow-up training session which will be scheduledduring the first quarter of this year.

NEVADA

On September 30, 1992, Investigator SteveHarrison of Sparks P.D. made contact with theNevada Criminal History Records Repository torequest additional searches on two subjectsfingerprints which initially resulted in no matchesin the five state WIN system. Upon retrieval of thecards, Tom Johnson gave the cards to StanShafer to perform SSO searches into the systemsin California, Washington, Alaska and King CountyWashington. Stan made a hit against the Cal-IDsystem on one subject which revealed 11 arrests,four different names and five dates of birth.

After Stan reported that he found “nothing” in theother WIN states, Tom still felt that the othersubject was hiding something! So Tom instructedswing shift technician III, Robert Bitzer to contactthe FBI special processing center for a search oftheir files via facsimile transmission.

The FBI’s search produced an identificationagainst the second suspect who had an extensivearrest record in the state of Illinois. The subjectwas convicted of murder and also wanted by theFBI Chicago office and Cook County Sheriff’soffice for flight to avoid and escape. The FBIfurnished a fax copy of the prints for verificationand the record was retrieved from Triple-l andfurnished to Investigator Harrison.

What an example of law enforcement per-severance and cooperation!

OREGON

WIN has only one thing to say to Senior TrooperJon Painter of the Bend, Oregon Latent Print FieldLab. THIS BUD’S FOR YOU!

Department received word that the Oregon ParoleBoard had up-graded an outstanding statewarrant to a Nation-wide no bail Warrant andwould seek extradition.

An “LI” searched through AFIS provided Sr. The cooperation of the Anchorage PoliceTrooper Painter with an identification. The print Department, Department of Public Safety AFISwas found on a Budweiser beer can and sub- staff, Portland Police Bureau and Oregon Statesequently provided investigations their first lead in Board of Parole resulted in assuring this individuala sexual assault case. Congratulations Jon! a return trip to Oregon.

UTAH TOTAL WIN ACTIVITY TO l/1/93

Police in UTAH don’t take kindly to suspectsproviding false information.

In addition to 20 latent identifications reported,three subsequent AFIS identifications were madestemming from officers suspecting they weregiven false information.

Officers from the Utah Highway Patrol and KanabCity Police Department have experienced thebenefits of a combined AFIS network. Thesethree identifications resulted in extensive criminalhistory information from the states of Idaho, Utahand Oregon.

Tenprint Data Base (RDB-T) =

Latent Data Base (RDB-L) =

Unsolved Latent Data Base =

Tenprint Inquiries =

Tenprint Identifications =

Latent Inquiries =Latent Identification =

Latent hits involved cases from:

I,325525

930,045

8,989

522,969

49,792

31,794*1,977*

WYOMING

BEWARE! The Wyoming Division of CriminalInvestigation goes on and on and on... As ofDecember 1, 1992 the Division has reported a73% out-of-state ‘71” hit rate with one more monthto go. For Example:

On July 13, 1992 during routine AFIS processingof arrest fingerprint cards, a subject arrested inGillette, WY, on a simple assault charge, wasidentified. While this is no major break throughfor Identification Sections, the search waslaunched in Wyoming and identified againstIdaho, Nevada and Utah arrest records withdifferent names. A check against NCIC files alsorevealed the subject was wanted in the state ofNew Mexico.

71 homicides33 rape/kidnap120 robbery1092 burglaries103 drugs41 forgery131 stolen auto32 eliminations354 other

* Both latent inquiries and latent identificationscorrected from previous newsletter.

WIN MEETINGS

WIN Executive Committee MeetingJanuary 21-22Las Vegas, Nevada

ALASKA

Kathy Monfreda of the Anchorage PoliceDepartment identified a subject arrested forburglary which resulted in hits against Washingtonand Oregon state’s data bases.

WIN Board of Directors MeetingMay 25-26Roseville, California

Five-Year Plan Sub-Committee MeetingJan/Feb 1993

After additional contacts to Oregon StateProbation and Parole, Anchorage Police

CHAIRMAN VICE CHAIRMAN SECOND VICE CHAIRMANDENNIS A. DeBACCO LT. COL. LYNN HILLMAN RICHARD J. TOWNSEND

Nevada Highway Petrol Oregon State Police Utah Department of Public Safety

2260 Douglas Boulevard, Suite 270 Roseville, CA 95661 (916)786-8010 FAX (91610786-8734

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Circulation 3,000 Volume I, Issue 6 August 1992

NEW MEMBERS

Montana joins WIN and becomes the seventhCentral Site Member. On June 24, 1992, theMontana Department of Justice (DOJ) receivedfinal budget approval from its Finance Committeeto purchase an AFIS and is scheduled to be on-line by January 1, 1993. With the deadline rapidlyapproaching, conversion of 66,400 manualrecords will begin in mid September. Asfingerprint cards are converted, they will beaccessible within the WIN data base. So beprepared to see candidate print informationprefixed with “MT” coming soon.

Eugene Oregon, Department of Public Safety(DPS), has also been successful in obtaining AFISfunding for a WIN Remote Booking Terminal.Eugene DPS joins WIN and becomes the 13THAccess Member and the fourth Remote BookingTerminal to be installed in Oregon.

Nebraska continues to express interest in joiningWIN. While a number of obstacles still remain, wehave provided the Nebraska State Patrol withpreliminary costs for WIN hardware expansionand conversion of 80,000 fingerprint cards.

WIN/NEVADA LIVE-SCAN

All systems go! On June 8, 1992, WIN enteredinto contractual agreement with Digital BiometricsInc. to install two stand-alone systems and onereceiving station. Live-Scan systems are now inoperation at North Las Vegas Police Departmentand Washoe County Sheriffs Office with thereceiving station located at the Nevada CentralSite in Carson City. The Nevada State Repositoryanticipates significant improvement in responsetime, quality of fingerprints and a lower rejectionrate of fingerprint images.

WIN OFFICE RELOCATES

It will be a couple of months before the officerelocates but the deal is sealed. WIN has enteredinto a five year lease agreement for 2100 squarefeet of office space in Roseville, California locatedin the greater metropolitan Sacramento area. Ifall goes as planned, the new office space will beready for occupancy by mid October.

COMMUNICATIONS UPDATE

The final decision concerning WIN’s use of theNational Law Enforcement TelecommunicationsService (NLETS) network may be decided by theend of September. WIN will be attending theOperational &Procedure Committee in Septemberfollowed by the WIN Board of Directors meetingalso scheduled in September....so with all thesemeetings, past and present, we are within strikingdistance with a final “Yea” or “Nea”. There areanticipated cost benefits for both NLETS and WINas well as the elimination of duplicatetelecommunication lines. This is another exampleof cooperative efforts of law enforcement whichhas made NLETS and WIN a reality.

WIN AFIS ACCOMPLISHMENTS

OREGON

How low can you go? Oregon State Police goesto an almost all time low....tenprint identification,that is. A 71” conducted in June revealed a scoreof 192 and appeared as candidate #5 as well.You guessed it, candidate #5 with a score of 192turned out to be an “ID”. So let us know how lowyou can go, if you can go lower than OregonState Police.

NEVADA

Del Horsley, North Las Vegas Police Department,conducted an AFIS tenprint search for the ClarkCounty Coroners office on an unknown deceasedvictim. The AFIS search resulted in a quickpositive identification and subsequently lead tothe arrest of the victim’s husband. For somereason, he was packing his suitcase to catch aflight out-of-town.

Ron Young, Washoe County Sheriffs Office hitson an “Oldie but Goodie”. _& Friday, _it’s sunnyand 85 degrees, 0 a nice day in Reno and Ronis working the day shift assigned to the CrimeLaboratory. It’s fifteen minutes till quitting timeand Ron is looking for something to do for fifteenminutes. So he decides to take a glance throughsome old homicide cases of years past. Now Rondoesn’t want to process a case that may havenumerous latents. Why? Because it’s Friday andclose to quitting time. Guess what? That’s right!He finds a case with only one little ole latent print.Ron says to himself, “Hey, this is great! This onelatent should only cause me to exert minimalphysical effort” as the day shift s I o w I ycomes to an end. Ron executes the search, buthis previous years as a sworn officer tells him tostick around, he’s got a gut feeling on this one.You guessed it, he identified the unknown latentfrom this 1987 open case.... The identification istrue but the story was changed to make it a bitmore interesting for your reading pleasure. Buton a more serious note, the latent identificationhas provided investigators with a lead that wasn’tpossible in 1987, thanks to AFIS.

UTAH

Brigham City Police Department retrieved threelatents from a burglary scene in which a videocamera and van were reported stolen. Thelatents were delivered to the Utah CrimeLaboratory for processing and searching throughAFIS. In summary, the latents were identified in&&I, the van was recovered in Georaia and thesuspects were apprehended in Tennessee. Itsbeen said time and time again that “CriminalsKnow No Boundaries”.

WYOMING

The Division of Criminal Investigation received a

request for an AFIS search on a subject arrestedin Gillette, Wyoming on eight larceny counts. Atthe time of arrest the subject identified himselfusing an identification card from the State ofConnecticut. The fingerprint card was searchedthrough AFIS with negative results. A search wasconducted against Alaska, California andWashington data bases in which an identificationwas made against a Washington state record thatlater revealed the subject being wanted inSpokane, Washington on a drug charge.

LATENT PRINT HIT ACTIVITYSECOND QUARTER 1992

During the first half of 1992, 4,584 Latent Inquiries&l’s) were conducted with 375 hits of which 42hits were made out-of-state. This equates to an8% overall hit ratio and a 11% out-of-state hitratio.

Idaho

Month of Junel/92 - 6/92

Out-of-state

- 8%4%13%

Nevada

Month of Junel/92 - 6/92

Out-of-state

Oreaon

2%9%

16%

Month of Junel/92 - 6192

Out-of-state

- 11%10%7%

Portland Police Bureau

Month of Junel/92 - 6192

Out-of-state

12%25%12%

Month of June 17%l/92 - 6/92 7%

Out-of-state 3%

The total number ofstates is as follows:

latent hits made in other WIN UPGRADE

California 18Washington 5Oregon 5Wyoming 5Utah 4Idaho 4Nevada 1

TOTAL WIN ACTIVITY TO 6!30/92

Tenprint Data Base (RDB-T) =

Latent Data Base (RDB-L) =

Unsolved Latent Data Base =

Tenprint Inquiries =Tenprint Identifications =

Latent Inquiries =Latent Identifications =

Latent hits involved cases from:

1,213,197

839,100

7,313

451,73642,627

32,29660

902 burglaries86 drug related27 eliminations61 homicides27 rape/kidnapings91 robberies102 stolen autos30 forgeries307 in other categories.

WIN/CALIFORNIA REGIONAL NETWORKUPDATE

As a result of the WIN/INS project, communi-cations software has been installed in all WIN andCAL-ID AFIS systems. This software will allow allparticipating agencies to communicate throughthe WIN and CAL-DOJ AFIS Systems. Theupgrade became fully operational in July 1992.

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The WIN upgrade and data base reorganizationwas completed in July. The WIN database wasoff-line July 23 through July 31 to allow for therequired system enhancements and hardwareinstallation for the INS, Idaho and Oregonupgrades. The new WIN configuration is shownbelow:

DATA BASE SIZE

RDB-T RDB-L

Before Upgrade1,435,ooo

After Upgrade1,788,OOO

Change353,000

1,082,OOO 32,000

1,082,OOO 32,000

0 0

THROUGHPUT

I ! !z! T/LIDBefore Upgrade

808 155 320 565After Upgrade

1,404 155 320 741Change

596 0 0 176

LR

52

52

0

WIN MEETINGS

WIN Executive Committee MeetingSeptember 10-l 2Reno, Nevada

WIN Boundaries & User Fee Committee MeetingSeptember 19-21Oregon City, Oregon

WIN Board of Directors MeetingSeptember 22-24Oregon City, Oregon

CHAIRMAN VICE CHAIRMAN SECOND VICE CHAIRMANDENNIS A. DeBACCO LT. COL. LYNN HILLMAN RICHARD J. TOWNSEND

Nevada Highway Patrol Oregon State Police Utah Department of Public Safety

9343 Tech Center Drive, Suite 250 Sacramento, CA 95826 (916) 361-0385 FAX (916) 361-4536

IA - COLORADO - IDAHO - MONTANA - NEVADAAH * WASHINGTON * WYOMING

I31’T’S & HI-T’S

1991 proved to be a “whorlwind year involving newmembers, additional terminals, network expansion,and ever increasing interest in WIN. Six bookingterminals were installed in California near theMexico border for U.S. Immigration and Natural-ization Service. Terminals were also installed inSan Bruno, California for U.S. Postal InspectionService, and in Washington D.C. for the U.S. SecretService.

Other states and agencies showing interest in WINduring the past year are Arizona, Montana, NorthDakota, Michigan, New Mexico, Bonneville andKootenai Counties (Idaho), Billings, Eugene,Denver, and Nashville. A major obstacle toextending the network is telecommunication costs;therefore, WIN is working with NEC Technologiesto develop X.25 communications capability. Theuse of X.25 will provide significant savings and maypave the way for WIN to utilize the National LawEnforcementTelecommunicationsService @LETS)network.

With criminal and gang activity continuallyincreasing, it is more crucial than ever for states andlaw enforcement agencies to work cooperatively. Asan example, the cooperative effort that created WXNhas now resulted in identifying over 1,800 crimescene fingerprints (47 homicide and 19 rape cases)and 32,000 criminals arrested using aliasinformation. One third of all WIN tenprint hits aremade against records in other states and thetenprint hit rate against CAL-ID is over thirtypercent. The initial INS hit rate is near fiftypercent and will increase as the INS AFIS data basedevelops.

WIN/NEVADA LIVE-SCAN PROJECT

Resulting from negotiations with the State ofNevada, WIN is currently in contract developmentwith Fiigermatrix, Inc. to place fingerprint live-scan

devices in North Las Vegas Police Department andWashoe County Sheriff’s Office. These devices willbe connected via telecommunications to an on-lineprinter at the Nevada Highway Patrol IdentificationBureau. When a subject is fingerprinted at either ofthese locations, fingerprint cards will beelectronically produced at the local site andtransmitted to Carson City for processing. This isa pilot project to determine if it is feasible to placeadditional devices at all booking facilitiesthroughout the state. Nevada is looking to improvethe timeliness of receiving fingerprints of subjectswho are arrested whereby positive identity isestablished and warrant status is determined priorto release. They also intend to improve thefingerprint image quality of documents to reducethe number of unacceptable fingerprints.

WIN AFIS ACCOMPLISHMENTS

IDAHO On July 5, 1991, a suspect entered thetrailer of a female victim by reaching through abroken window next to a locked door. The victimwas threatened with a knife, robbed and brutallyraped. On July 8, latent prints were delivered toCindy Hill of the Boise Police Dept. A search ofthe WIN AFIS produced hits on the Idaho andOregon data bases which resulted in the suspect’sarrest.

INS On July 3, 1991 WIN and INS signed a fiveyear renegotiable contract. Six INS BookingTerminals are currently operational along theSouthern. California border. Four additionalBooking Terminals, including two DBI live-scanunits are to be delivered in March of 1992.

NEVADA On November 22, 1991, Jeff Artz of theNevada Highway Patrol Criminal InformationServices, received a tenprint fingerprint card fromthe Massachusetts State Police - Violent FugitiveArrest Squad on a homicide suspect. The subject

had been wanted since 1981 for the murder of a taxidriver in Roxbury, Ma.

The fingerprint card was searched by FingerprintTech II Marjorie Bitzer and in minutes she reporteda hit against the California AFIS Data Basepursuant to a WIN AFIS search. Jeff Artzinvestigated further to determine the suspect wascurrently serving time in the California Departmentof Corrections conservation camp in Soledad, Ca.

Artz informed MSP Sgt. Kevin Horton of the AFISsearch results and the location of the fugitive. As aresult of these efforts the fugitive, who was about tobe set free, will be changing his address to aMassachusetts prison.

Early on November 14,1991, an officer from a localagency stopped a subject for a routine traftic stop.An NCIC Wanted Persons check disclosed thesubject was possibly wanted in Wyoming. Thesubject stated that, though he had the same name,he was not the wanted person. Therefore theOfficer released him.

After releasing the subject, the officer had secondthoughts and contacted NHP Trooper Paszek.Paszek subsequently stopped the subject andtransported him to the Sheriff’s Offke in Fallon.

Upon checking with the NHP Central Repository,Paszek learned the subject was wanted for checkfraud. A Triple I inquiry revealed an Idaho SIDnumber. He then faxed the subject’s fingerprints tothe repository where he was identified as being thewanted person. He had a convincing line that mayhave worked without the availability of fax machinesand the WIN AFIS.

OREGON At 11:lO am On July 23, 1991, the 1”Interstate Bank of Medford was robbed. The casewas investigated by the combined efforts of theOregon State Police, Jackson County Sheriff’sOffice, and the FBI. FBI Agent In Charge MikeMiller gave OSP Criminalist Brian Kerns therobbery demand note. Kerns developed a latentprint from the note, entered it to the WIN AFISand obtained a hit at 3:30 p.m. The suspect wasarrested at 5:2O p.m. and subsequently confessed theMedford bank robbery, a robbery in Springfield,Oregon, and two additional bank robberies inCalifornia. This was obviously a preventative arrest.

PORTLAND On March 23, 1991, Officers Justus

and Kirkland of the Portland Police Bureau GangEnforcement Team (GET) requested theIdentilication Division assist them with theinvestigation of two subjects who had been dealingin large quantities of drugs. The subjects allegedlyobtained phony identification from a DMV clerkwho had been selling bogus licenses.

The GET team believed one of the subjects had arecord in California under an alias name. TheIdentification Division ran an AFIS search of WINand CAL-ID which resulted in a CAL-ID hit.

This identification was the critical piece of evidenceneeded to obtain a search warrant for the subjects’residences. In the course of searching for the falseidentification, the GET team also “accidentally”discovered and confiscated the largest quantity ofcocaine ever seized in a single raid in Oregon.

U S POSTAL INSPECTIONS SERVICE In April,1991, USPIS made their fust latent hit on a casefrom Los Angeles involving a stolen and forged U.S.Treasury check for $495.00. The suspect gave afalse name and information but the applicationrequired applicant to submit an “Identi-Seal” thumbimpression. We guess he didn’t know about WIN.

U S SECRET SERVICE The U S Secret ServiceBooking Terminal in Washington, D.C. came on-line in September, 1991.

UTAH In September, 1991, Lt. Glen Miller ofCedar City P.D., upon interviewing an arrestee whoaccused an officer of police brutality, suspected thesubject was lying about his identity.

Lt. Miller faxed a set of poorly rolled fingerprints toTerry Dermis of the Utah Department of PublicSafety for an AFIS search. Within 20 minutes, aWIN AFIS search determined the subject was usingalias information, had an extensive record, and waswanted by several jurisdictions in Utah. Now wepresume he is complaining about an overzealouslieutenant and the WIN AFIS.

WASHINGTON The spring WIN PPC meetingwill be held on April 7-8, 1992 in Silverdale,Washington, two days preceding the AnnualWashington State AFIS Users Conference. Sincethe past conferences have provided excellenttraining and AFIS user interaction, WIN will coverexpenses for PPC members to attend theconference.

WYOMING On November l5,1991, the WyomingDivision of Criminal Investigation was requested bySoutheast Drug Enforcement Team Agent Wheelerto conduct an AFIS search on three individualsarrested for various controlled substance violations.A WIN search resulted in positive hits on twosubjects. One subject hit on Utah duplicate recordsand the other hit on duplicate records in Nevada.The subject identified through Utah records wasdetermined to have two outstanding Utah warrantsand was flagged as an escape risk and should beconsidered armed and dangerous.

CALIFORNIA As a pilot connection for the WIN,CALID regional systems, San Francisco P.D. wasthe first system to be connected to WIN. OnJanuary 13, Ken Moses, working a 1984 homicidecase, identified two suspects against the Utah andOregon WIN data bases. The Utah suspect wasarrested in May, 1991.

WIN BOAJ2D OF DIRECTORS CHANGES - 1991

* As a result of a reorganization of theOregon State Police, Lt. Colonel LynnHillman replaced Major Dean Renfrow onthe WIN Board of Directors.

* Vice Chairperson Fred Wynbrandt was alsoreassigned due to a reorganization withinthe California Department of Justice. JackScheidegger now represents Cal-DOJ onthe Board.

* Because of the above changes, DennisDeBacco, Nevada Highway Patrol, replacedWynbrandt as Vice Chairperson andHillman replaced Renfrow as 2”d ViceChairperson.

WIN/CALIFORNIA REGIONAL NETWORKUPDATE - As a result of the WIN/INS project,communications software has been installed in allWIN and CAL-ID AFIS systems. This software willallow all participating agencies to communicatethrough the WIN and CAL-DOJ AFIS systems, Itis anticipated the upgrade will be fully operationalprior to April, 1992.

Once these interfaces are completed, approximatelyfourteen million AFIS records will be searchablethrough WIN.

The original WIN network was comprised of fourAFIS host sites, seven Remote Input Stations, andsix Booking Terminals. Upon implementation ofthe communication software the network will theninclude 12 AFIS host sites, 21 Remote InputStations and 49 Booking Terminals.

TOTAL WIN ACTMTY TO 12-l-91

Tenprint Data Base (RDB-T) = A145257Latent Data Base (RDB-L)Unsolved Latent Data Base (LDB;

797,939= 6,075

Tenprint Inquiries = 365363Tenprint Identifications = 33,568

Latent Inquiries = 21,774Latent Identifications = 1,806

Latent hits involved cases from; 739 burglaries, 66drug related, 27 eliminations, 47 homicides, 21rape/kidnapings, 67 robberies, 80 stolen autos, 19forgeries, and 740 in other categories.

WIN PROJECTS COORDINATOR - Afterevaluating applications from several excellentcandidates, Gary B. Goad was selected to fti theWIN Projects Coordinator position. Gary bringswith him a wealth of ID Bureau and AFISexperience and will be an outstanding asset as westrive to improve our efficiency, increaseproductivity and develop training programs.

WIN MEETINGSJanuarv 22-23Executive Committee

Januarv 30-31By-Laws Committee

Aoril 7-10Policy & Procedures

Committee

Am-i1 28-29Annual Meeting

San Diego, CA

Salt Lake City, UT

Silverdale, WA

Salt Lake City, UT

CHAIRMAN VICE CHAIRMANA. D. JONES, CHIEF DENNIS A DeBACCO. MANAGER

Idaho Bureau of Criminal Identification Nevada Highway Patrol Ctfmlnal Information6064 Corporal Lane, Boise. ID 63704 555 Wright Way, Csraon City, NV 6971 f

(206) 327-7137 (702) 607-5713

SECOND VICE CHAIRMANLT. COL. LYNN HILLMAN

Oregon State Polks107 Publk Ssrvka Bldg. Sakm, OR 97301

15031 370-3720

Western Identification Network Inc.

WIN held its 1992 AMU~ Board of Directors meeting in the scenic splendor of Snowbird Utah, April28 & 29. Our appreciation is extended to our gracious host, Richard Townsend of the Utah Departmentof Public Safety, Bureau of Criminal Identification. The illustrious Utah mountains were “pictureperfect”.

WIN PIONEER STEPS DOWN

A special thanks is extended to a PIONEER of WIN, Chief A.D. Jones of the Idaho Bureau of CriminalIdentification. A.D.‘s leadership and commitment has elevated WIN to its highest plateau. A.D., thefirst Chairman of WIN, served two terms dedicating relentless hours which has resulted in WINcontinuing to be a success story. THANKS, A.D.

ELECTION RESULTS

Congratulations to the following Board members elected to fill the positions of Chairman, Vice Chairmanand Second Vice Chairman.

CHAIRMAN

Mr. Dennis A. DeBacco, ManagerCriminal Information Services

VICE CHAIRMAN SECOND VICE CHAIRMAN

Lt. Col. Lynn HillmanOregon State Police107 Public Service BuildingSalem, Oregon

Chief Richard J. TownsendUtah Dept of Public SafetyCriminal Identification Bureau4501 South 2700 WestSalt Lake City, Utah

Nevada Highway Patrol555 Wright Way

Carson City, Nevada

Congratulations are also extended to Mr. Kenneth E. Bischoff of Alaska, Lt. Rick Phillips of Washingtonand Chief Jack Scheidegger of California who were elected to serve on the Board as our Interfacemember representatives. Ms. Marilyn Nault of King County, Washington, and Captain Enrico Togneriof Washoe County Sheriffs Office, Nevada, were re-elected to serve second terms on the Boardrepresenting Access members.

Upon a unanimous vote from the Board Members, our federal agencies are now represented by SpecialAgent James Tuite, U.S. Treasury, Secret Service. S.A. Tuite becomes our thirteenth Board Member.

CHAIRMANDENNIS A. DeBACCO

Nevada Highway Patrol

VICE CHAIRMANLT. COL. LYNN HILLMAN

Oregon State Police

SECOND VICE CHAIRMANRICHARD J. TOWNSEND

Utah Department of Public Safety

9343 Tech Center Drive, Suite 250 Sacramento, CA 95826 (916) 361-0385 FAX (916) 361-4536

MASKA l ARIZONA * CALIFORNLA * COLOMDO * IDAHO * MONTANA * NEVADAOREGON * UTAH - WASHINGTON - WYOMING

Circulation 3,000 Volume I, Issue 4 January 1991

A year has now passed since WIN sites beganconducting searches against the newly formed WINdata base. There were skeptics who doubted thatWIN could gel in the first place let alone holdtogether thereafter. WIN members, in spite ofnumerous opportunities to stand fast and protectparochial interests, have consistently made decisionsto best meet the needs of all. This unprecedentedlevel of cooperation combined with the copiousenergy expended by all has proven to be the truestrength of WIN.

It was also feared that as the original WINparticipants change assignments, the WIN spirit ofcooperation would deteriorate. When we look atBoard changes during the year, WIN has adequatelyaddressed this fear. In each case, when Major LynnHillman, Captain Roger Haven, Lieutenant RoyKindrick, Captain John Westwood, and Bob Olsenresigned from the Board, we all experienced thefear of “How will WIN fare without them”. In eachinstance, though we miss them greatly, theirreplacements “caught the wave” and WIN continuesto move ahead.

As WIN looks ahead to additional members andnew projects, there is little doubt that the WINcooperative “can do” attitude will persist.

WIN HOST I-SUB - NECTECH is currentlyinstalling an Input-Subsystem at the WIN centralsite. The I-SUB will provide improved testing andthe capab i l i ty fo r NECTECH, wi th WINcooperation, to conduct benchmark tests in the U.S.It will also allow WIN to reduce backlogs by havingNECT ECH personnel conduct tenprint inquiriesthereby freeing state techs to perform onlyverifications and registrations.

GRANT FUNDS TO IMPROVE CRIMINALRECORDS - Per a November 8, 1990 SEARCHGroup, Inc. announcement, the ComprehensiveCrime Control Act of 1990 includes a first-everearmark on BJA’s block grant funding. Thelegislation requires states to allocate “not less than5 percent” of its block grant funds to improvecriminal justice records. The statutory languagemakes clear that “improvement of criminal justicerecords” refer primarily, if not exclusively, tocriminal history records systems. The legislationprovides that the purposes for which monies are tobe spent shall include:

* Completion of criminal histories to includethe final dispositions of all arrests forfelony offenses;

* Full automation of all criminal justicehistories and fingerprint records; and

* Improvement of the frequency and qualityof criminal history reports to the FBI.

For addition information contact: Judith Ryder atSEARCH Group, Inc. (916) 392-2550

TOTAL WIN ACTMTY TO 12/l/90

Tenprint Data Base 1,016,336Latent Data Base 714,215

Tenprint Inquiries 159,850Tenprint Identifications 13,472

Latent Inquiries 12,593Latent Identifications 671

Latent hits involved 19 homicides, 5 rapes, 31robberies, 35 drug cases, and 414 burglaries.

A subject was identified to a CAL-ID record afterthe Winnemucca P.D. enlarged his prints on a copymachine and faxed them to Nevada Highway Patrolin Carson City, where they were reduced andentered to AI%.

WIN AFIS ACCOMPLISHMENTS

ALASKA Soon after linking to WIN, a three yearold investigation was rekindled when Alaska StateTroopers matched prints from an AnchorageAirport box containing a large amount of money toPortland Police Bureau file prints.

IDAHO - As a result of an Idaho tenprint inquiryagainst CAL-ID, a rape suspect was identified andlinked to his California rape records. Anotherarrestee, identified to a Utah APIS record, was runagainst NCIC and found to be a Washington Statemissing person.

NEVADA - North Las Vegas Police made livehomicide identifications against California (2),Nevada (2), and Utah (1). Tenprint hits include aperson wanted in Oregon for narcotics charges andtwo John Doe’s that were identified to CAL-IDrecords. Washoe County Sheriffs Office made fivehits against CAL-ID and a seriously injuredunidentified man was matched to an Oregon record.With the help of Patricia Whitlield, OSP, thesubject’s parents were notified. He later died, butnot as a John Doe.

OREGON - Some people will go to no end to solvecrimes. In 1978 when Major Dean Renfrow wasassigned to Hood River as a lieutenant, hesupervised a homicide investigation whereby a truckdriver was found in his truck with his throat slitfrom ear to ear. The case was unsolved and Deanmoved on to eventually spearhead the Oregon AFISproject. Last fall, Dean’s efforts paid off when OSPidentified bloody prints from the truck to aWashington State AFIS record. The “lady” wassubsequently arrested.

Three other Oregon homicide hits involved a 1978case that hit on a 1980 larceny charge, a 1974 casethat hit on a 1975 drug charge, and a more recentcase that hit on a 1982 DUI charge. These hitsdemonstrate the importance of creating a completerolled print latent data base.

A negative “gut feeling” prompted OSP TrooperMichael Stupfel, Coos Bay, to print and hold ahitch-hiker until his prints could be faxed to Salemand run in APIS. A hit against CAL-ID revealed a$500,000 Brisbane warrant for burglary and sodomyand a Stockton warrant for sex charges and escape.Coos Bay is now a safer place.

PORTLAND - Portland Police Bureau arrested aman whose prints were not classifiable because hehad intentionally scarred all ten finger pad areas.The best fmger, run as a latent, hit an a CAL-IDrecord which was created prior to the scaring. HisFBI rapsheet revealed he has 19 felony arrests and19 alias names. After the scared lingers wereregistered in the WIN data base, a test latentinquiry provided a hit. It seems the man wentthrough all that pain for nothing.

UTAH - Davis County submitted exceptionally clearlatent prints from a vehicle burglary. They wereentered directly without being traced and provideda hit in number-one position with a perfect score.Emery County faxed a tenprint card to UDPS of asuspected drug runner with an elaborate marijuanasetup. Utah searched the prints in CAL-ID toobtain a hit with a score of only 137.

Utah also assisted the U. S. Secret Service in aforgery/fraud investigation where the subject hadforged approximately 80 checks. The checks wereprocessed for latent prints and searched throughAPIS to provide a suspect who has since beenarrested.

WASHINGTON - Steve Bjorlmg, Snohomish CountyS.O. identified a 1988 female homicide victim bytracing her best prints and running them as latents.He searched all WIN systems to hit an 1984 theftrecord in the Alaska AI%.

WYOMING - In November, 1990, Special Agents ofthe South East Drug Team arrested three suspectsin Cheyenne for delivering 20 pounds of marijuana.Mary Symonds ran AFIS searches to identify two ofthem who were armed and claimed to be illegalaliens. One was found to have a Utah record withan outstanding warrant. The other has an extensiveNevada record.

AFIS BRIDGES THE GAP BEIWEEN LATENTAND TENPRINT PERSONNEL

The WIN Staff solicits news articles; this issue’sselection is submitted by Commanding OfficerJoseph P. Bonino, Los Angeles Police Department-_________-_________-------The emergence of AFIS technology in the lastdecade has caused a reevaluation of the traditionalroles of latent fingerprint analysts and fingerprintidentification technicians. In the prior world ofmanual fingerprint methods for identifying arresteesand manual methods of comparing crime scenelatent prints to print cards, very differentiated rolesdeveloped and a chasm existed between the twogroups. Often, latent print personnel looked downon identification technicians as inferiors and soughtto separate themselves from them. This is ironicbecause the vast majority of latent print personnelcame from the ranks of identification technicians.Further, in many police organizations, identificationpersonnel work in a records or support environmentwhereas latent personnel, usually far fewer innumber, work in a criminal investigation or crimelab chain of command. This has tended to furtherexaggerate the separateness of these two verysimilar skill groups.

However, the new AFIS technology is revolutionaryand creates these entirely new capabilities; coldsearching of crime scene latents on a productionvolume basis, greatly improved tenprint searchaccuracy over manual methods, tenprint to latentand latent to latent matching, and on-line reinquiryto other networked AFIS systems.

These revolutionary capabilities are based ontechnological approaches to fingerprintssubstantially different from former manual methods.In short, the playing field for latent and tenprintpeople has been forever changed. While this oftencreates great anxiety for latent people, it alsoprovides them great opportunities to rethink theirrole in the radically new automated environment.There is now significant merit in co-locating latentand tenprint personnel in the same chain ofcommand and as physically contiguous to the AFISequipment as possible. Agencies with AFIS havelearned that this is an ideal way to integrate theseskill groups into a single team which is far moreproductive than separate obsolete manualfingerprint environments.

IMPROVlNG WIN’S DATA BASE - When the WINdata base was converted, an excessive number ofscar pattern types were assigned which reducesWIN’s response time and throughput. In an effortto clean up the data base, NECTECH providedstates listings of records containing scar patterntypes. Technicians in Utah and Wyoming havecompleted checking each record to determine ifscars could be reclassified.

Utah eliminated 79 percent of their scars bycorrecting 2,691 of the 3,400 scars checked whichreduced their number of scars to 709. Thoseremaining are missing fingers, actual scars, orpoorly rolled prints with no alternate card in thefde. Wyoming eliminated 23 percent of their scarsby correcting 140 of the 608 scars checked. Theyalso found 26 percent were actually amputations.Justice is tough in Wyoming.

CURRENT PROJECTS - U.S. Postal Inspectionswill have their WIN Latent Input Terminal installedat San Bruno, California in the near future.

U. S. Immigration and Naturalization is also movingahead with their AFIS project and plans to beginsearching prints and processing prints and addingcriminal aliens to the WIN data base during thenext few months. WIN is also exploring thepotential of live-scan fingerprinting and mug-shotcapabilities.

WIN OPERATlONS MANAGER - After evaluatingapplications from several excellent candidates,Victor J. Fleck, Jr. was selected to fill the WINOperations Manager position. Vie brings a wealthof AFIS capabilities and experience to WIN as welook forward to improving WIN efficiency, training,and productivity.

TECHNICAL TlPS - Don Conner, Portland PoliceBureau, found that latent tracings drawn withLUMOCOLOR red felt tip pens, included withtracing kits, produce more uniform ridge tracingsthan lead pencils and reduce to quality one-to-onetracings on copy machines.

Search System Other (SSO) numbers are notunique. When a record is retrieved or a search re-initiated, the operator must verify by checking allinformation on the screen to ensure the correctrecord has been retrieved.

AWKA . ARIZOu4 * CAllFORNlA - COIORQO * IDAHO * M O N T A N A * NEVADAOREGON * UTAII * WASHINGTON - WYOMING

Circu7ation 3,000 Vo7ume I, Issue 3 August 1990

When the first NEC AFIS came on line in Tokyo,who could have envisioned the things AFIS isaccomplishing now. The California Washington,King County, and Alaska AFIS systems are nowfully interfaced with WIN. Since each AFIS isdesigned with varying programs and specifications tomeet requirements of that particular user, it comesas no surprise that making all these system interactis a significant accomplishment. To make thishappen, NEC technicians have worked quietlythrough the nights and the network is working.

in anxious anticipation of the network, states havemailed tengrint and latent prints to each other forsearching. This meant that once the prints arrivedthey had to compete with existing workloads andbacklogs for personnel to enter them. To sum itup, this worked poorly at best.

Now that the interfaces are connected, techniciansworking cases conduct the searches on-line andreceive comparatively immediate responses withoutimpacting the workload of the other systems.

WIN welcomes Mr. Michael Korn as the NIXTechnologies, Inc. WIN Account Manager. He is avaluable addition to NIXTECH’s Sacramento team.

TOTAL WIN ACTIVITY TO DATE

Tenprint Inquiries 90,000Tenprint Hits 6,087Tenprint Registrations 71,000

Latent Inquiries 8,221Latent Hits 454

Latent hits involved 10 homicides, 3 rapes, 25robberies, and 19 drug cases.

KING COUNTY POLICE

Latent Print Examiner Tonya YTaguirre Kalin, 37,passed away peacefully at her home in Federal Way,Washington on May 28, 1990 after a ten monthbattle against Acute Leukemia.

Tonya’s entire working career was with the KingCounty Police Department in Seattle. At age 1.6she began working as a clerk in the TechnicalServices Division. For several years, Records washer home...but that “other world” of Identificationcontinued to beckon her. In 1975, Tonyatransferred to the Identification Unit where shebegan working her way up the fascinating ID careerladder. She was promoted to Latent PrintExaminer in 1979.

Tonya was instrumental in helping King CountyPolice advance technically with their purchases of alaser and AFIS. She was also the primary LatentExaminer assigned to the Green River SerialMurder Cases since 1982.

Tonya was highly respected in the fingerprintcommunity for her technical expertise and crimescene processing skills; however, we will most missher loving personality, her sense of humor, and herpersonal warmth for all who knew her, She issurvived by her husband, Sgt. Bruce Kalin of theKing County Police Department

UTAH

Vice detectives working Salt Lake City cited aperson for pimping; however, were not convincedregarding his true name. His index fingerprint fromthe citation was entered to WIN as a latent. Theresulting hit against an Oregon record providedpositive identification and disclosed he was wantedin that state.

NEVADA OREGON

On May 17, 1990 Nevada ran the “lirst” W I Ntenprint inquiry against the CAL-ID database. Thesearch went smoothly with a quick response time.

To further test the interface, a test latent wasdeveloped by the Nevada Repository. Althoughcore and axis settings were left up to the individualoperators, all Nevada sites, booking terminalsincluded, reported all test latents hit in the numberone position.

Dur ing the month of March , th ree l a ten tlingerprints were identified by the Carson CitySheriff’s Office in connection with a case wherebyan antique dealer in Carson City was robbed andbeaten. The victim received serious head injuriesand has not been able to identify or rememberanything about his assailants. As a result of thelatent identification, the suspect was arrested inVirginia City and is presently being held withoutbail. Additional warrants have been served onothers allegedly involved.

On June 25th, a wanted stop for a federal fugitivewas received from the Las Vegas FBI office. Uponreceiving an AFIS hit against a Utah record, it wasdetermined that the subject had been arrested onJune Bth, and was still in jail. Looks like he will bestaying longer than expected.

Washoe County Sheriff’s Oflice recently booked anunknown female for using stolen credit cards toobtain money from “COMCHECK” teller machines.After a WIN AFIS search identilied her to anOregon record, it was determined that she waswanted by the U.S. Secret Service, North Caroiina,and Washington D.C. for various weapons offensesand fraud. Her NCIC III record indicates she hasarrests in seven states and has fortv-six alias names.

On May 22, 1990 the Alaska Department of PublicSafety faxed a tenprint on a “John Doe”, booked inAnchorage. Nevada searched his prints against theWIN database and “hit” on an Oregon record.

To date, the North Las Vegas AFIS terminal hasbeen instrumental in solving two homicide cases,one of which hit on a Utah record. Further detailsregarding these cases are being held pendingadjudication. Needless to say, Chief Zohner andstaff are quite pleased with their new terminal.

In April, the Newport Police Department receiveda report that someone was loading a vehicle withstolen property from a beach house. The suspectwas gone when police arrived; however, he wasidentified from latent prints obtained from thevehicle which was also stolen. Even though thelatent was of poor quality, the “hit” candidate was innumber two position with a score of 1173.

In May several law enforcement aoulicants wereidentified by AFIS to arrests for auto theft, burglaryand manufacturing controlled substances. They ap-parently wanted to become more familiar with lawenforcement but, instead, felt the touch of AFIS.

By using the AFIS tenprint to latent search function,a person arrested for DUI, was identified to latentprints from a series of arsons in Medford during1977-1979. Made his day!!

PORTLAND

A “Pinning” ceremony is planned to acknowledgeparticular Portland AFIS operators “winning of theirwings”. Ace Joe Lopez, Senior Criminalist, satdown at the controls, hit three of four latents and,as a result of one of the AFIS hits, made anadditional identilication on a manual search .

Not to be outdone, Almost-Senior Criminalist FredBarnes, after successfully completing advancedlatent training at the FBI Academy, attacked AFISwith a vengeance. Fred entered every latent hecould get his hands on, sometimes going so far asliterally grabbing them from people’s hands. At anyrate, he searched twelve and hit nine before givingup, exhausted, but smiling.

In April, Clark County Sheriffs Office (Wash-ington) faxed a tenprint card to Portland to besearched through WIN. The subject, then underarrest for Theft-II, was on felony probation inOregon and had an outstanding felony warrant forprobation violation. Alias names just don’t worklike they used to.

Captain Roger Haven, who has provided WINexpert guidance from the beginning, has beenreassigned as commander of the Training Division.To assure his lasting influence in WIN, Roger hasagreed to assist in the developing the WINAdministrative Procedures Manual. Doesn’t thatsound like a fun job.

IDAHO

Two latent prints (one good and one poor) from a1986 rape case involving a sixty-two old victim wereamong the first entered when Idaho came on-linewith WIN; however, they did not hit. In April,Fingerprint Tech Jack Jaquess, reprocessed theprints a third time and obtained a hit on the poorprint with a score of 382 in number two position.

Recognizing recent advances in fingerprinttechnology, INS in conjunction with the CaliforniaDepartment of Justice, implemented a prototypestudy to assess the viability of installing live-scanAFIS terminals in Border Patrol stations along thesouthern border. The study demonstrated thatAFIS can be a cost effective means to quicklyidentify criminal aliens. Those identified as wantedcriminals are turned over to the appropriate lawenforcement agency for prosecution.

The good latent print failed to hit because it wasbeing matched to a “C quality file print. 1) Onceagain the importance of high quality file prints isdemonstrated and 2) as we become more proficientat using AFIS, its a good idea to rerun some ofthose old cases. The twenty-four year old suspecthad a couple extra months of freedom but he is nowsnugly in jail.

The WIN/INS AFIS project will be phased-in overa five-year period to keep initial costs to a minimumand provide operational working experience withmember states. Phase I, scheduled in fiscal year1990, will involve implementing live-scan and/orbooking terminals in seven Border Patrol orInspections Stations in the San Diego area.

WYOMING

Wyoming, being a comparatively quiet lowpopulation state, would seem to be a good place forcriminals to go to get a fresh start on a newcriminal record. Not the case anymore. The valueof multi-state processing is evidenced by thefollowing breakdown of Wyoming tenprint hitsagainst the WIN data base: Idaho 18%, Nevada2%, Oregon 21%, Utah 38%, and Wyoming 21%.

Per the five-year plan, INS will place forty-eightbooking terminals along the Mexico border andcreate a 700,000 tenprint criminal alien data base inWIN. Pending agreements with states involved,AFIS systems in California, Arizona, and Texas willalso be upgraded to accommodate INS tenprintsearches.

ARIZONA OBTAINS AFIS FUNDING

On September 1st. Kip Crofts will step down asDirector of the Division Criminal Investigation tobecome Assistant U.S. Attorney for the FederalCourt in Casper. Among Kip’s many accomplish-ments are Wyoming’s new state-of-the-art crimelaboratory and AFIS through WIN. We all wishhim well in his new venture.

On June 18th, Arizona Governor Rose Moffordsigned legislation authorizing a $2 mill ionappropriation for an Arizona State APIS. Thesystem, which is expected to be operational in abouta year, will be housed in the Department of PublicSafety and accessible from police agenciesthroughout the state. Our congratulations to all inArizona who have worked diligently for years tomake this happen.

U.S. IMMIGRATION and NATURALIZATION WIN TO ADD THIRD EMPLOYEE

Since the early I!XO’s, when INS discontinuedroutinely fingerprinting illegal aliens, the BorderPatrol has experienced substantial increases incriminal alien gangs, smugglers, and narcoticstrafficking at the Mexican border. There iscurrently no method in place to quickly identify andapprehend criminal aliens or to determine if theyare wanted for criminal activity. The traditionalidentification process often takes weeks to complete;therefore, without substantial grounds for detainingaliens, they are returned to Mexico.

If all goes well, WIN will hire a third employeeearly in 1991. This person will monitor systemoperations, provide user support, training, andadded support for current WIN staff. Salary willrange from $37,200 to $43,200 over four years.Benefits include medical and dental insurance, asimplified employee pension plan, sick and annualleave, plus state and federal required benefits suchas unemployment insurance and social security.Applications for this position may be obtained fromthe WIN office.

A. 0. JONES, CHIEFIdaho Bureau of Crlminol Identtficotton6064 Corporal Lana, Bolw, ID 83704

(208) 327.7137

FRED WYi%i&$%%lRECTORCaltfornta Deportment of Judlcr

P. 0. Box 13387. Socromenlo, CA 95813(916) 739~5ooO

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107 Publtc Senlcr BulldIng, S&m, OR 97301(503) 373-l 405

9343 tech Center Ddve, Sub 250 Sacramento, CA 96826 (916) 141-0385 ?AX (916) 361-4536

Volume I, Issue 2 April 1990

WIN APIS Activity through March:

Tenprint Inquiries 48,387Tenprint Identifications 3,336Tenprint Registrations 40,119

Latent Inquiries 3,753Latent Identifications 292

Major Latent Hit Crime Types:Homicide 8Rape/Kidnap 2Robbery 11Drugs 14Burglary 203

The past two months have been busy for WIN. TheU. S. Immigration & Naturalization Servicecontacted the WIN administrative office inSacramento to work on a plan to bring the BorderPatrol into the WIN network. If the plan wasimplemented, over a five year period INS wouldinstall 48 booking terminals along the U.S. Mexicoborder and add 600,000 criminal alien records to theWIN data base. In March, however, INS decidedto put the project on hold for at least 60 days.

The U.S. Marshal’s Service is interested in joiningWIN to install booking terminals is some westernstates and enter 35,fKKl federal fugitives to the WINdata base.

The U.S. Postal Inspections Service has alsoindicated an interest in joining WIN in order toinitially search WIN data bases from a bookingterminal in San Bruno, California.

Sheriff’s departments in Clackamas and Washingtoncounties Oregon have been provided cost estimatesto join WIN and obtain booking terminals. Bothagencies will coordinate their WIN membership andWIN processing requirements through Oregon StatePolice.

After overcoming numerous telecommunicationsdifficulties, all nine WIN booking terminals were upand running in four states on March 29th. NRCexpects to have new software installed by July 16thwhich allow Alaska and Washington APE systemsto interface with WIN. This will complete the initialWIN network.

NRC Technologies had an opportunity to test theirfire alarm system in early March. An alarm wasinadvertently set off while a large piece ofequipment was being moved into the computerroom. The fiie department was on the scene in lessthan five minutes, even though they were advised itwas a false alarm. Imagine how fast they wouldarrive if it was a real fire.

CALIFORNIA

Humboldt County became the 32nd county to joinCAL-ID, the world’s largest AI%. At a Januarypress conference, Humboldt County Sheriff Rennerand local chiefs of police unveiled the county’s newterminal that will allow them to search the 6.5million records in the CAL-ID data base.

More than 24,000 prints from crime scenes havebeen identified since the CAL-ID system becameoperational in 1985. The criminals subsequentlyarrested would likely have gone free if the CAL-IDAPIS did not exist.

IDAHO

Idaho had their first “Hit” on a tenprint to latentprint inquiry on March 15, 1990. The latent printsfrom a stolen and recovered police car were enteredinto APIS on March 9 and resulted in no hit. OnMarch 15, tenprints of an arrestee from an un-related case were queried against the latent printdata base, which resulted in a hit on the latentsentered six days earlier. Chalk one up for nothaving a backlog.

An Idaho latent print search against the entire WINdatabase produced a list of ten candidates fromother states with no hit. When the same search waslimited to Idaho’s database, an identiIication wasmade on candidate #6, with a score of only 522.

NEVADA

Brian Hutchins, the original WIN attorney, recentlyassumed the duties as Chief of the Legal Division ofthe Nevada Department of Transportation. DavidF. Sarnowski replaced Brian as Chief of theCriminal Justice Division of the Nevada AttorneyGeneral’s Office. Brian’s assistance is greatlyappreciated by all WIN members. Thanks, Brian.

So far this year, the Nevada Criminal InformationServices Section has searched 10,142 tenprint cardsthrough the WIN AFIS which produced 775identifications. This 7.6% hit rate is quiteacceptable, since approximately half of the inquiriesare applicant cards and AFIS searches areconducted only on persons not identified by namechecks.

On February 5th, John Westwood, Washoe County,was promoted to Captain, and transferred to theDetention Bureau of the Sheriffs Office. John gotpromoted and sent directly to jail. Good luck, John!John was replaced by Lieutenant Raymond Wright.Captain Enrico Togneri will take John’s place onthe WIN Board of Directors.

On February 22nd, Washoe County identified a“John Doe” bank robbery suspect as “John” from aWyoming record. Maybe he really was John Doe.

OREGON

Shortly after the implementation of WIN, Oregonwas saddled with a requirement to conduct an AFISsearch of all persons who purchase guns from gundealers. The law requires AFIS searches using onlythumbprints which caused OSP to use eight “scar”(wildcard) pattern types for tenprint inquiries.

Needless to say, the “handgun” searches drasticallyslowed response times and put the cooperativeconcept of WIN and the WIN/NECT relationshipto the test. I’m happy to report that all have passedwith flying colors. WIN agencies adjustedprocedures to accommodate Oregon’s workload,various processing alternatives were tried with theassistance of NEC Technologies, the computer wasadjusted to improve throughput, and OSP obtainedapproval to purchase additional WIN AFISprocessing and to ask gun dealers to submit plainimpressions in addition to thumb prints.

As the percentage of inquiries received with “plainimpressions” increases, WIN AFIS throughput andresponse times continue to improve. When theWIN AFIS is enhanced to accommodate Oregon’strue workload, handgun searches will be transparentto all users and response times will be better thanever. This is an example of the cooperative effortthat has been WIN’s strength from the beginning.

In December, the Oregon State Police ran atenprint inquiry for the New Mexico State Police.The system initially rejected the search prints;however, OSP overrode the rejection and obtainedthe hit with a score of 402. Without outstanding fileprints, (from Portland Police Bureau) it is doubtfulthe subject would have been identibed.

PORTLAND POLICE BUREAU

Joe Lopez got his first AFIS hit on January 8th ona tenprint to latent inquiry (T-LI). The latent printswere obtained from a burglary committed just oneweek prior to the suspect’s arrest.

Tech Pittock ran a tenprint inquiry which hit on twoOregon SID numbers. He then ran the subject asa latent which hit on the same two SID numbersplus a third number. Armed with information fromthree SID numbers, he proceeded to query OregonLEDS and was able to discover a fourth OregonSID number which was verified through AFIS. Thisdemonstrates how poor quality prints cause thecreation of multiple records. AFIS is an improve-ment, but it will never solve the problem of trying toprocess “poor prints”.

Don Conner, Criminalist, reports ‘AFIS, much likea horde of voracious locusts devastating a cornteldby inexorably marching through the backlog ofunidentified Iatents that Iill expensive IiIingcabinets”. He believes that as latent examinersenhance their skills and eliminate the latent printmany “hits” will be made on old active cases. Justwhen you thought you had heard every excuse in thebook, now it’s “whatya bustin’ me now for?” or “Idid that one three years ago”.

To date, Portland Police Bureau has made in excessof 256 latent identiIications, seven of which were1985 or older cases.

UTAH

The new surgical technique used to correct RichTownsend’s back problems seems to have him onthe road to a normal life. We all wish you a speedyrecovery, Rich.

Utah fingerprint technician, Denise Bywatcrannounced that she and Ron Young of WashoeCounty, Nevada are to be married on June 15th. Iguess those prints matched pretty well.

Regarding Utah AFIS processing, they ran printsfrom an unidentified deceased twenty-year-oldfemale as latents and hit on a Portland PoliceBureau card. Knowing her identity led them to asuspect who was subsequently arrested for hermurder.

WASHINGTON

In January, the Centralia Police Departmentinvestigated the rape of a four-year-old girl. Fivelatent impressions were lifted from the rearviewmirror of a vehicle at the scene and forwarded toWSP for AFIS processing. As a result, two of thelatents were identified and a suspect was arrested.

The first Annual Washington State AFIS UsersConference was held in Port Angeles on April 5thand 6th. The weather and scenery were so beautifulthat, were it not for the attendees intense interest inAFIS, the beaches and mountains would have beenmore populated. The conference offered usefulAFIS processing and technical information fromNEC Technologies and other AFIS users; however,the highlight was the NEC Enhanced BookingTerminal. All are anxious to see them installed.

WYOMING

Robert Olsen, Division of Criminal Investigation,will retire on July 31, 1990. Bob has been veryactive in the formation of WIN and will be greatlymissed. Good luck, Bob!!

Apparently Utah is not a favorable job market forthose with criminal records since a fair number ofWyoming’s AFIS applicant cards hit on Utahrecords. From there they must be heading forMontana.

TECHNICAL ISSUES

Jim Luthy (Washington State Patrol) suggested aBatch List procedure which is expected to savetechnicians an average of 10 hours per week. Byrequesting a Batch list on tenprint to latent inquiriesin “done” status, technicians save time and avoidusing approximately 170,OOO sheets of printer papereach year.

A FINGERPRINT TECHNICIAN’S STORY

I went out last night to the Arch Tavern. I met agirl there who was really thumbs up.I a s k e d h e r i fshe wanted to diverge back to my place. Well, aftera few doubles, I took her for a whorl in my car andcruised the&. While driving down an unfamiliarroad I became very dissociated. I came to thebifurcation in the road and I didn’t know if I shouldgo && or m. We ended up hitting an islandwhich bounced us into a large obstruction in theroad. It was a bad accidental. I still carry thescarsfrom that night. I was injured so badly the doctorshad to amputate my index fingers on both hands. Italso cost a lot of money to fii both broken& onmy car.

I realize this story is very arbitrary and toget to the s of the matter, next time you aredown in theu, don’t get double looned and-my steps. The right angle to take is get yourself atent and camp out on a ridge instead of drinkingand driving. It’s the only sufficient recurve to take.

(Editor’s note: This was submitted by John Fosterto the Washington WSP Rap Sheet.)

ALABAMA

On February 8th, the Baldwin County Sheriff’sOffice, Bay Minette, Alabama, discovered ahomicide victim near I-10 with gunshot wounds tothe head. Since they were unsuccessful inidentifying the victim from local and state records,they distributed his prints to other states.

The prints, which were enlarged approximately150%, were read directly into the system by Oregon.Nevada also ran the prints after reducing them totheir approximate original size. Both states hit onthe same Oregon record which was created from aconcealed weapon permit violation in 1973.

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ATTENTION WIN USERS: In order to make theWIN Bits and Hits interesting and informative, weneed your continuing help and input of noteworthyitems. Remember to mail or FAX progress reports,quotable case information, news articles, andsuggestions to the WIN office on an ongoing basis.Information received by the 10th of the month willbe included in that month’s newsletter.

A. 0. JONES, CHIEFIdaho Bureau of Criminal Identtftc~ion6064 Corporal tone, Boise, ID 83704

(208) 327-7137

!f!uzwFRED WYNBRANDT, MST. DIRECTOR

California Department of JvskeP. 0. Box 13387, Sacramento, CA 95813

(916) 739-5000

RFTARYARFAW~MAtOR DEAN RENFROW

Oregon Slots Pallcr107 Public Service Building, Salem, OR 97301

(503) 373-l 405

9342 Tech Center Drive, Suit& 250 Saerbmenie, CA 95826 (916) 361-0385 FAX (916) 361-4536

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B I T S a n d H I T S

Volume I, Issue 1 January 1990

Welcome to the Western IdentificationNetwork newsletter. This newsletter will bepublished every other month.

The WIN AFIS, capable of processing18,000 arrest cards and 3,400 crime scene latentprints per month against 1.4 million criminalfingerprint records, began processing Nevadainquiries on October 10th at Carson City. OtherWIN Remote Input Stations (RIS) are now oper-atonal at Boise, Cheyenne, Portland, Salem, andSalt Lake City. Booking Terminal installations infour WIN states has been delayed until late Januarybecause of difficulties in using AT&T PADS(packet-assembler-disassemblers).

Alaska, California, and Washington AFISsystems are scheduled to be connected to the WINcomputer early in 1990.

During the first six weeks of processing,WIN made 231 tenprint identifications whichresulted in 29 criminals being served withoutstanding warrants. Numerous identificationsinvolved out-of-state cards. One of our moreresourceful criminals was identified to four separaterecords, two in Oregon and two in Utah. He wasn’tsuch a nice guy after all.

Welcome to our two newest associatemembers:

North Las Vegas Police Dept.Chief Jerry L. ZohnerIdentification Bureau

King County Dept of Public SafetyChief Gregory BoyleTechnical Services Division

Inquiries about WIN have been receivedfrom a number of states and agencies. As WINbecomes fully operational we anticipate additionalagencies joining the network.

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IDAHO

On October 20, 1989, the first Idaho AFISlatent hit involved a 1964 Homicide in Bingham,County, Idaho. The victim, a 16 year old girl, waslast seen on October 29, 1964. Her battered bodywas located four weeks later in a creek.

Bob Kerchusky, of the Idaho Bureau ofCriminal Identification, matched latent prints fromthe victim’s vehicle to John Hevewah, of the FortHall Indian Reservation. Hevewah, whose fileprints resulted from a 1980 misdemeanor arrest, wasnumber one on the candidate list with a score of1,507. He has since been charged with the crime.

NEVADA

During the second week of December, Nevadaconducted a tenprint search on an unidentifiedindividual charged with attempted murder by theCarson City Sheriffs Office. The suspect, who wasidentified to an Idaho record, is now addressed byhis true name.

OREGON

During the fast month of operation theOregon State Police Latent Fingerprint Sectionmade fourteen AFIS hits. During the fast day ofoperation, Senior Trooper Paul Fluke first hit on adrug case followed by Trooper Mark Phillips whoidentified a burglary latent.

During December Oregon conducted 1,015tenprint inquiries which resulted in 61 hits.

PORTLAND POLICE BUREAU

During the first six weeks of operation thePortland Police Bureau made 63 latent hits whichresulted in a total of 109 identifications.

One suspect, after being identified by AFIS,was associated with 20 additional cases.

Criminalist Dennis Wall made Portland’sfirst homicide identification which involved a victimwho was stabbed in the head with an ice pick. The

latent, lifted from a beer can at the scene, wasidentilied to an Astoria, Oregon arrest card.

Tech II Floyd Housley is making remark-able progress recovering from his October heartattack. We’re all pulling for you, Floyd.

UTAH

The Utah RIS must have been dropped onthe boat. After NECT hardware and softwaretechnicians worked on it for two weeks, the finalsolution was to replace the Fingerprint ImageProcessor. A rare situation.

Utah technicians Brenda Wood, BarbaraCrane, and Denise Bywater are commended fortheir exceptional effort to master AFIS processing.

WYOMING

The multi-state concept is working well forWyoming. Forty-two of their seventy tenprint hitswere from neighboring states, a @Y?% out-of-state hitrate. It’s getting ever more diflicult for crooks tofind a new place to live.

This year Wyoming will also provide crimescene investigation training to enhance latent printrecoveries.

TECHNICAL ISSUES

Communications - It has been proposedthat WIN and NLETS combine resources by sharingdedicated lines. The first being considered is theAlaska line. Under this configuration, WIN wouldrun a line to Phoenix: NLETS would double thespeed of their Alaska hne then multiplex it, half forNLETS and half for WIN.

WIN monthly communications costs cur-rentlv exceed $10,000. We are looking into the

feasibility for NEC to develop dial-up software forAFIS. This could result in networking every NECAFIS terminal in the world. Additionally, themoney currently going to AT&T could then go toNEC for AFIS enhancements. This may be an issuefor the upcoming Internet meeting.

Speaking of communications, we have -requested NECT provide WIN the capability toconnect more than one FIM to an image printer. Asimilar configuration is currently utilized inWashington State. This enhancement will open thedoor for additional FIM purchases.

DATA BASE - The WIN AFIS data basearchitecture requires each inquiry to search allrecords with scar pattern types. One-tenth of onepercent of the data base is allocated to scarpatterns. (One scar per 100 cards) Therefore, asthe percentage of scars exceeds this amount,response time and throughput suffer accordingly. Itis imperative that the use of scar pattern types bekept to a minimum.

CROSS TRAINING SOLVES TWO PROBLEMS

Implementation of the Washington StateAFIS in 1988 greatly changed tenprint and latenttechnicians responsibilities. Tenprint duties becameless challenging while latent techs were swamped.

Tenprint techs are now receiving in-housetraining on latent print preservation, mock court,and latent tracing and input. After training, tenprinttechs will assist latent techs with AFIS latentprocessing and crime scene investigations.

Involving tenprint techs in latent processingmakes their jobs more interesting and challengingand increases their potential for career advance-ment.

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ATTENTION WIN USERS: In order to make theWIN Newsletter interesting and informative, weneed your help. Please forward progress reports,quotable case information, news articles, andsuggestions to the WIN Office on an ongoing basis.Information received by the 10th of the month willbe included in that month’s newsletter.

Future newsletters wi l l change pe rsuggestions and will contain more definitive systemslatistics. NEC Technologies, Inc. is developingimproved system reporting software which willeliminate much of the manual tabulation that iscurrently required.

cmA. D. JONES, Cl IIEF

Y-FRED WYNBWDT, ASST. DIRECTOR

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