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Friction Ridge Print Comparisons

U.S. Department of Justice — Drug Enforcement Administration · Police and forensics · 2025

status as stated: PilotUse-case inventory entryAnalytics

The DOJ 2025 inventory lists Friction Ridge Print Comparisons for U.S. Department of Justice — Drug Enforcement Administration. The row states the stage as Pilot; it classifies the use case as Classical/Predictive Machine Learning for Law Enforcement and says it addresses DEA when conducting fingerprint analysis to identify individuals who…

DEA, when conducting fingerprint analysis to identify individuals who may be connected to evidence, needs to be able to compare friction ridge prints to other prints within the boundaries of a case. Product enables linking of cases where individuals are not necessarily identified.

Status date given by the source: 01/2024.

Official record: justice.gov · archived copy
Read: 2026-09-07 · primary document read
Found via: doj-inventory-2025
Notes: DOJ spreadsheet row DOJ-0065; original component field: Department of Justice / DEA.

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