Baltimore's police department plans to purchase five “vampire” biometric forensic devices developed by Booz Allen Hamilton.The spookily named VAMPIRE device is handheld and conducts real-time forensic analysis in the field. According to Booz it can perform fast, accurate, on-site latent and live fingerprint identification and matching analysis in just seconds.Not much larger than the average smartphone and weighing in at 1.8 lbs, the ruggedized tool integrates fingerprint analysis into a commercial mobile-device, enabling operators with minimal specialized training to perform advanced fingerprint processing. The Baltimore City Board of Estimates this week approved a $30,000 contract to purchase the hand-held electronic devices which will allow detectives to process fingerprints faster at crime scenes.Steven O'Dell, Director of the Baltimore Police Crime Lab, told Fox news Baltimore, “I can fingerprint somebody at the crime scene, a witness, a victim, anybody that's there and determine whether that matches what I'm about to recover.In May, Planet Biometrics talked to Jonathan Levitt, a lead associate with BAH, about the device's development history and its capabilities.

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