RapidID is a fingerprint scanner the size of a smart phone, and a crime-fighting tool so successful law-enforcement agencies now wonder how they ever worked in the field without it.
The state received 120 of these devices, and distributed them to two dozen metro Atlanta law enforcement agencies.
The system searches for outstanding warrants, missing persons reports and protective orders. It also checks the Secret Service's protective, parole, probation and identity theft files, electronic records for sex offenders, immigration violators, foreign fugitives, and known and suspected terrorists.
The scanners also are used to confirm identities.
Most agencies use the RapidID devices in the field, but the Gwinnett Sheriff's Office found the scanners helpful in checking out inmates entering jail. The scanners are time-savers because police officers don't have to readdress paperwork when it's discovered that an inmate has given a false name, Col. Donald Bartlett said.
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