Wisconsin Department of Justice Identification Manual - Imprimus ...

Wisconsin collect more than 700 fingerprints at crime scenes each year. Fewer than
1 percent of those prints can be used to find the criminal. With an AFIS system, as
many as 20 percent of the fingerprints found at crime scenes will help identify law
breakers when evidence has been submitted to the Crime Laboratories for the lifting
of latent fingerprint(s) and subsequent comparison to the ten print fingerprint cards
maintained by CIB.
Technical Assistance and Training
State Statute 165.83 (2) (h) and (i) provides that the Division of Law Enforcement
Services - Crime Information Bureau assist all agencies and provide instructions
whenever practicable to all agencies to establish the state system of identification
and to establish efficient local records systems. Trained Field Representatives are
permanently assigned full time to offer instructional assistance, monitor fingerprint
card submissions, aid administrators, train identification personnel, and are available
for personal contact as required anywhere in law enforcement agencies, prosecutor's
offices, courts, and correctional institutions. Assistance requests or inquiries
concerning the Wisconsin Identification System should be addressed to:
Director
Crime Information Bureau
P.O. Box 2718
Madison, WI 53701-2718
608/266-7314
Handling Manual Revisions
The Wisconsin Identification manual will be updated and revised as needed in the
future. Updates and revisions will be available for download via the Internet and
will not be re-printed by the Department of Justice. Individual users of the manual
will be responsible for the download and inclusion of all update material for each
manual. Users will be notified when updates or revisions are available for download.
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