New MSP print matching software sparks new leads

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — Michigan State Police are calling new fingerprint matching software “phenomenal” and a “game changer.”

“We’ve got a system that just outperforms anything that we’ve been exposed to,” Lt. Rob Hackerd, supervisor of the Latent Print Unit at the Michigan State Police Crime Lab of Fuller Avenue NE in Grand Rapids. “Right away we saw that prints that are of a lower quality, we could get in the system and the likelihood of a match was greatly increased.”

In late 2018, MSP switched to a new provider for its fingerprint comparison software — Paris, France-based Idemia.

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