Fact Sheet

Fact Sheet

• IAFIS searches the fingerprints of over 72.9 million subjects in the National Criminal History Record File (over 330.4 million arrest cycles).
  • The automated civil file contains an estimated 34.7 million subjects.
  • The database includes approximately:
  • 657,788 Active Wants
  • 596,268 Sex Offenders
• More than 18,000 local, state, federal, and international partners electronically submit to IAFIS
• Interstate Photo File has 14,601,652 million photos for over 7.87 million records
• IAFIS identified 28,975 fugitives in August 2012 as a result of tenprint processing
• 297,180 fugitives have been identified in FY12

• Yearly Volume Tenprint Fingerprint Submissions to IAFIS:
  • Fiscal Year 2012 to date – 52.8 million
  • Fiscal Year 2011 – 50.8 million
  • Fiscal Year 2010 – 61.3 million
• Average transaction volume: 161,478 per day
• Record High Receipts: 04/30/2010 – 300,113 within 24 hours
• Record High Completions: 04/30/2010 – 297,816 within 24 hours

August 2012

• Electronic fingerprint submission rate – 98.4 percent
• Manual (paper) fingerprint submission rate – 1.6 percent
• Tenprint Criminal Submission Rate (related to arrests, inquiries, etc.): 54.3 percent
  • 99.7 percent submitted electronically
• Tenprint Civil Submission Rate (related to employment/licensing screening, etc.): 45.7 percent
  • 98.3 percent submitted electronically
• Response times:

  Tenprint Rapsheet Request (TPRS) Average Response Time – 51.5 seconds 93.09 percent completed within 15 seconds Criminal Electronic (CAR) Fingerprint Submissions Average Response Time – 6 minutes and 20 seconds 99.01 percent completed within one hour Civil Electronic Fingerprint Submissions Average Response Time – 50 minutes and 33 seconds 99.73 percent completed within 12 hours Electronic Non–Federal User Fee (NFUE) Fingerprint Submissions Average Response Time – 1 minutes and 33 seconds 99.97 percent completed within 15 minutes Criminal Fingerprint Card Processing Non–Urgent (CPNU) Submissions Average Response Time – 1 hour 10 minutes and 41 seconds 99.99 percent completed within 72 hours

Latent Information

• Yearly Palmprint Submissions to IAFIS:
  – August 2012 – 201,193
  – Fiscal Year 2012 to date – 1,931,598
     Daily average – 5,749
  – Fiscal Year 2011 – 1,157,063
     Daily average – 3,170
  – Fiscal Year 2010 – 916,825
     Daily average – 2,512
  
  
• Latent Fingerprint Feature Searches (LFFS) Processed:
  FY12 Average Response Time – 58 minutes and 27 seconds
  – August 2012 – 17,812
  – Fiscal Year 2012 to date – 216,780
  – Fiscal Year 2011 – 203,715
  – Fiscal Year 2010 – 155,625

• Latent Fingerprint Image Searches (LFIS) Processed:
  FY12 Average Response Time – 1 hour, 51 minutes and 21 seconds
  – August 2012 – 1,982
  – Fiscal Year 2012 to date – 18,765
  – Fiscal Year 2011 – 14,058
  – Fiscal Year 2010 – 8,272

• Unsolved Latent File (ULF) Deposits:
  – August 2012 – 7,959
  – Fiscal Year to date – 94,279
  – August 2012 Database Size – 498,617
  – Fiscal Year 2011 – Database Size – 486,299
  – Fiscal Year 2010 – Database Size – 387,189
• Unsolved Latent Match (ULM) Searches:
  – August 2012 –1,516
  – Fiscal Year 2012 to date – 14,638
  – Fiscal Year 2011 – 14,311
  – Fiscal Year 2010 – 11,181

Biometric Services Section
Statistical Trending, Analysis & Reporting Group
September 18, 2012