New police tech identifies your whole finger

Previously we were limited to only being able to search against the tips of the fingers and the palms of the hand, whereas now with this new feature we've got the entire hand to search against, which we have been running against our unsolved historical database, which has turned up many, many thousands of cases to review, even based on those early results from that.

We think that this is going to provide hundreds if not thousands of new persons of interest for investigative purposes.

We've got cold cases dating back many decades that had no new leads and we're now providing those to the investigators.

So it's a fantastic result.

We have an attempted murder from 2008.

which had been placed in cold case as of 2018, we've now been able to provide a new suspect to the investigators because of this new capability, which we never would have been able to do without it.

That will submit this against whatever sections of the database I choose, New South Wales, Queensland and Victorian records.

as well as all federal records.

It's just giving us access to searching things that we've never been able to search before.

As early as a couple of years ago, we wouldn't be able to search these sections of the hand.

We use the system to bring us back to the list obviously, but then it needs manual intervention or the human eye to make the final determination.

The score we get gives an indication of how close the system thinks it is to the actual latent print.

We still can get hits on things lower down the list, but it just gives us an idea that that is something to take a bit of an extra look at.

The higher the score, obviously, the closer it thinks it is to being from the same source.