L.A. County to Buy More Cogent Fingerprint Scanners

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Cogent Systems said Monday that the Los Angeles County Regional Identification System has given Cogent a 1,000 unit purchase order for its Cogent BlueCheck mobile identification devices, which will be used by law enforcement agencies around the county.

The additional wireless Cogent BlueCheck devices will join 500 devices earlier ordered and currently in use, said Pasadena-based Cogent in a statement. The value of the deal was not disclosed.

The devices are used with computers in officers’ patrol cars, as well as PDA phones and BlackBerry phones, to provide law enforcement officers with access to the federal fingerprint identification system while in the field.

The BlueCheck devices communicate over the L.A. County Sheriff’s Department’s secure network to allow officers to perform a rapid fingerprint check of subjects in the field, compare fingerprints with more than 4 million criminal subjects maintained in the database, and receive an identification within seconds.

“We have numerous success stories where felons with long standing warrants were arrested because the patrolling officer used the Cogent BlueCheck to identify the subject,” said Lt. Leo Norton of the Sheriff’s Department in the statement.

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