Mr. Schiff: There's a computer in West Virginia loaded with more than 47,000,000 fingerprints of people who were arrested over many decades. It's the FBI's Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System, known as IAFIS...

Mr. Kirkpatrick: "It's been a tremendous success."

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

Mr. Kirkpatrick: "We continue to hear stories from our customers, law enforcement across this country and really across the world, about identifications that have been made while the people are still in custody."

Mr. Schiff: Kirkpatrick says IAFIS can pull the curtain open on fugitives...

Mr. Kirkpatrick: "These folks use somebody's name, other than their own, hoping that no one will find out who they really are. But we provide their true identification."

Mr. Schiff: When prints come in, they're processed and within minutes, a response is kicked out and sent back to the police. IAFIS works 24/7 scanning and identifying. I'm Neal Schiff and that's what's happening at the "FBI, This Week."