The living raptor, the Peregrine Falcon, is the fastest creature on earth, diving toward its target at 200 miles per hour. Its telescopic vision misses nothing. Its legendary power strikes from above and below. It is the supreme hunter, humankind's partner through the ages. The falcon is the ancient symbol of justice and order.
Background: FDLE Information Technology
The Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE), in its mission of promoting safety and protecting life, is a nationwide leader in information technology for preventing, investigating, solving, and prosecuting crimes. Its computerized criminal history records (CCH) represent the third largest state criminal history repository in the nation: over 5 million offenders, 15 million arrests. The CCH, along with an automated fingerprint repository (AFIS), has been an invaluable source of information for criminal justice agencies, government, and the public.
The system was good, but outdated, and is now being revolutionized. FALCON, Florida's Integrated Criminal History System, is soaring into the future.
Previously, the identification of suspected or convicted criminals and the access to computerized criminal histories were achieved through the use of multiple systems, such as the Automated Fingerprint Identification System (AFIS ), the Computerized Criminal History (CCH) or through one of the specialized systems such as access through the internet. These systems were increasingly unable to handle the demands placed upon them by the criminal justice community and other entities requiring rapid identification services.
FALCON, Florida's new Integrated Criminal History System, will be a state-of-the-art search/report system that more effectively cross-matches fingerprints and criminal histories; includes photographs (faces, tattoos); searches national and other criminal justice databases; and allows instantaneous updating of criminal justice information systems. FALCON's fast, comprehensive, well-formatted reports will offer great benefits to law enforcement, government, and anyone who depends on fast and accurate accesses to criminal justice information.