ABSTRACT
Identification (NGI) Program The IAFIS is a national fingerprint and criminal history database, maintained by the FBI’s CJIS Division, and responds to requests from local, state, and federal agencies 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, and year-round. The FBI has been the national fingerprint repository since 1924. The automated system was launched in 1999 to aid law enforcement agencies across the country in solving and preventing crime. Prior to the implementation of the automated database, ten-print processing was a lengthy and labor-intensive process, as each submission was classified and searched manually.
