Solutions for Criminal Justice

Morpho Division, a top provider of large-scale Automated Palm print and Fingerprint Identification Systems (APFIS) and live-scan systems, supports more than 35 federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies across the nation, including the FBI. MetaMorpho™, Morpho’s AFIS technology, is known for world-class accuracy and speed.

Using 100% software matching with no proprietary hardware, MetaMorpho™ has an evolutionary platform able to evolve with new functions, objects, and workflows. It provides cutting edge technology in a protected investment. MetaMorpho™ supports multi-biometric identification including fingerprint and palm print as well as iris and facial recognition.

METAMORPHO™ is at the heart of a system named Morpho™ Police, made of a number of criminal identification solutions, supporting police forces from the crime scene to the criminal courthouse.

Morpho Police's all-digital networked workstations, and openness to other image processing technologies — such as portraits, tattoos, scars, etc.—can now:

• Solve many more crimes, with to a major improvement in Morpho’s finger data processing algorithms, and the ability to handle palm latents and other images such as portraits, etc.
• Identify suspects and criminals in real time with a client-server terminal network offering maximum territorial coverage.
• Switch to a paperless environment.
• Ease the exchange information, not just within the AFIS, but also between police organizations using the same standards.

From the Crime Scene to the Courthouse

Patrols and Field Teams:

IDENTITY CHECKS

Mobile terminals enable police patrols in the field to identify individuals in real-time with fingerprints and facial recognition.

• MorphoRapID 1100, biometric identification terminal: The Morpho RapID 1100 is a hand-held terminal allowing on-the-spot biometric identity checks. Equipped with a fingerprint sensor, a camera and a large control display, it is designed for one-handed operation. It includes a local database of up to 180,000 individuals and its wireless connectivity (WiFi, cellular and BlueTooth) enables real-time searches in the central AFIS.

Crime Scene

For the acquisition of photos at the crime scene, the high quality digital camera used in the MorphoLAW can be easily removed. With only one camera needed, precious department funds are saved. More information regarding the MorphoLAW can be found below.

Police Station

In the Police station, various workstations enable the real-time capture, verification and matching of fingerprints, palm prints, and facial imagery.

FINGERPRINTS & PALMPRINTS

• Morpho CardScan (digitization/transmission): This terminal is used by police forces, immigration services and border control officers to quickly identify individuals in custody. It digitizes all types of documents, storing and transmitting them to the central AFIS for comparison.

LiveScans (capture and storage of fingerprints and palm prints)

• Desktop LiveScan Stations: Designed for office environment, these stations include a PC and a choice of optical scanners. They acquire in live, digitize and store fingerprints and palm prints and transmit them to the central AFIS for comparison.
• Ruggedized LiveScan Stations: Protected by a heavy-duty housing, these acquisition stations allow police officers to capture the fingerprints and palm prints of individuals safely and to digitize, store and transmit them to the central AFIS for comparison.
• Portable LiveScan Stations: Well protected in their suitcase, the Portable LiveScan stations can easily be transported by police forces. They allow acquisition in the field, digitization and storage of fingerprints and palm prints and their transmission to the central AFIS for comparison.
• Web-based Fast ID: The Morpho DigiScan Web is a Web-based Fast ID system for use in law enforcement applications requiring real-time identification against a MetaMorpho AFIS. The fingerprint capture is fast, easy and includes real-time quality checks, thus allowing effective use by non-fingerprint experts. The AFIS search is conducted “lights-out” and in real-time without requiring any operators in the loop.

FACIAL RECOGNITION

• MorphoFace Investigate: Police forces frequently use photos during their investigations for identification purposes or to establish links between several criminal cases. Such manual searches are time consuming. MorphoFace Investigate is an automated facial recognition system that considerably reduces search times. It allows storage of several photos per individual case in its criminal, wanted or missing person databases.

Forensic Police Laboratory

The MorphoLAW workstation allows the acquisition of quality digital images (fingerprints, palm prints and latent prints) from crime scene objects.

• MorphoLAW: With its integrated digital camera, the MorphoLAW avoids the degradation of evidence and fingerprints by acquiring prints directly from crime scene exhibits. This same digital camera can also be easily removed for the acquisition of photos at the crime scene. Designed specifically for forensic laboratories and the fingerprint expert, both the MorphoLAW and the MetaMorpho Expert workstation can be integrated into unit.

Fingerprint Department

In the Fingerprint Department, an expert needs high accuracy tools to analyze, interpret and identify fingerprints and latent prints. Also, other workstations enable a layperson to rapidly digitize ten-prints, palm prints and store them in the APFIS databases.

• MetaMorpho APFIS: The MetaMorpho APFIS (Automated Fingerprint and Palm print Identification System) is a true criminal information system offering advanced data management features: multimodal biometrics (fingerprints, palm prints, portraits, tattoos, etc.), habitual offender databases, etc. Its matching software, the MetaMatcher is the fastest and most accurate on the market. It enables all types of fingerprint and palm print comparisons with criminal databases (fingerprint, unsolved latents, transjurisdictional databases). Interpol is equipped with the MetaMorpho and the FBI uses its matching algorithms.
• MetaMorpho Expert, workstation for the fingerprint expert: The MetaMorpho Expert is a user-friendly workstation designed in collaboration with fingerprint experts. It offers a comprehensive toolkit for the processing of fingerprints, palm prints and unsolved latents. With this workstation, the expert can also improve evidence image quality for comparison by the AFIS.
• Morpho BatchScan, workstation for non expert operators: Morpho BatchScan is a software application allowing a layperson operator to scan very rapidly ten-print and palm print forms (up to 500 forms per hour). The application automatically detects the barcode reference on each form and checks that the right number of forms have been scanned and stored in the database.
• Morpho Archive and Retrieval System (MARS): The Morpho Archive and Retrieval System (MARS) is a NIST archive and retrieval subsystem that is fully integrated and compatible with the MetaMorpho AFIS. It provides easily searchable electronic storage for original NIST transactions (fingerprint, palm print, demographic data, mugshots, scars, marks and tattoos). With the MARS, archived transactions are stored in a manner that permits simple automated access and image retrieval from any site authorized by a system administrator.
• MetaMorpho Audit Package (MAP): The MetaMorpho Audit Package (MAP) reporting tool contains several standardized reports that provide performance, management, and statistical reports. MAP also allows reports to be saved reports as spreadsheets for future reference, or further manipulation. Each report contains a summary page, a graphical representation, as well as a detailed data page of each entry. Reports may be filtered using agency, user, and date/time. 

Courthouse

With this specific software tool, a police officer can present, in chart format, the evidence confirming the positive identification of an individual.

• MorphoCharting: MorphoCharting is a software application offering a large set of tools to display and demonstrate most convincingly the positive identification of an individual. It can be integrated into the MetaMorpho Expert workstation or run independently on a PC.