Under the direction of DHS, several federal agencies have been deploying live scan technology to U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Agency locations throughout the Nation. Today Identix announced the receipt of a new purchase order valued at approximately $700,000 from CBP.
Including this new purchase order, Identix has received VISIT-related purchase orders over the past six months for its TouchPrint 3000A live scan systems with a value exceeding $3.6 million.
Several of the earlier orders, with a total aggregate value of approximately $2.9 million, were previously announced by the Company as unnamed federal customers.
These purchase orders are in addition to live scan orders the Company has received from the Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services under the 5-year Blanket Purchase Agreement awarded to Identix by DHS earlier this year.
According to CBP Assistant Chief Kelly Good, ten-print live scan technology has been deployed to 136 Border Patrol stations across the country, as well as to more than 100 ports of entry.
"Last year," Good said, "DHS made a commitment to deploy ten-print live scan technology to all of our stations by the end of the year to provide a link to immigration and criminal databases."
"This goal was accomplished ahead of schedule, and we plan to continue to deploy more live scan technology to numerous additional ports and points of entry over the course of the next year and a half."
Late last month, DHS announced that integrated ten-print live scan biometric identification technology was operating in every CBP Border Patrol station throughout the country.
The roll out of ten-print live scan technology is a part of the U.S. VISIT entry/exit program and allows CBP Border Patrol agents to simultaneously search the FBI IAFIS and DHS fingerprint databases.
According to CBP sources, with the assistance of live scan ten-print technology, CBP Border Patrol agents have arrested: 138 homicide suspects; 67 kidnapping suspects; 226 sexual assault suspects; 431 robbery suspects; 2,342 suspects for assaults of other types; and 4,801 suspected traffickers of dangerous narcotics.
287 criminals and other inadmissible aliens seeking admission to the U.S. have also been identified.
"Identix' ten-print live scan systems enable CBP to rapidly and effectively scan and submit the highest quality images for searches against the IAFIS and IDENT databases," Good continued.
"Image quality is of utmost importance to CBP,as our ability to conduct a thorough and rapid search depends on starting with the highest quality images possible."
"Identix' systems are consistently providing CBP with the highest quality images we require, and, as demonstrated by our results to-date, we are already reaping the benefits of adding live scan capabilities to our Border Patrol stations."
Identix President & CEO Dr. Joseph J. Atick commented, "Identix' role as a leading provider of multi-biometrics technology to the U.S. Federal Government continues to expand. We are proud to be recognized for our high quality of image capture and we look forward to continuing to play our part in helping to secure our Nation's borders."