Livescan
Livescan machines have now been installed at all main police custody suites across Norfolk. They allow "inkless fingerprinting" by use of a digital capture system. The fingers and palms of an arrestee are scanned, captured electronically and then transferred over to the IDENT1 database. This means an identity search can be carried out quickly and effectively, usually in less than ten minutes. Fast identification of persons coming into police custody provides significant operational and welfare benefits.

 

IDENT1
IDENT1 is the national automated fingerprint system which is a powerful computing infrastructure that connects all UK Police forces to the Home Office via a central database.

It enables soft copy storage of all fingerprint forms from people arrested for recordable offences and currently contains around seven million forms. It is this collection of forms that fingerprints recovered from crime scenes can be searched against by Norfolk Constabulary Fingerprint Officers.

As well as searching fingermarks recovered from a crime scene IDENT1 has the facility to search palm marks. This enables the fingerprint officer to potentially identify an offender from a crime scene where only palm marks have been found.