Mr. Schiff: There are millions of prints in the FBI's fingerprint computer file. Recently, a set of prints came in from Virginia, and found a match in seven-minutes...

Mr. Kirkpatrick: "Those fingerprints were processed on the FBI's Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System."

Mr. Schiff: That's Mike Kirkpatrick, Assistant Director of the FBI's Criminal Justice Information Services Division in West Virginia...

Mr. Kirkpatrick: "What we found out on this individual was that he was wanted in two separate jurisdictions in the state of Pennsylvania for drug-related homicides. He was arrested in Virginia using a different name."

Mr. Schiff: Kirkpatrick says if someone has been arrested, IAFIS, the computer, may have their prints on file...

Mr. Kirkpatrick: "We currently have approximately 47,000,000 individuals' fingerprints on file who have been arrested at one time or another over the last several decades."

Mr. Schiff: The FBI sends responses back to police departments within minutes. I'm Neal Schiff and that's what's happening at the "FBI, This Week."

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