Palm-Print Biometrics Aid Atlanta Police

The Police Department of Atlanta, which makes 63,000 arrests per year, is getting a new kind of weapon to catch criminals: a workflow-based biometrics system that can scan palm prints in addition to fingerprints. "A lot of criminals will leave a palm print when they try to break into a car or door," says Capt. Shirley Britton, chief of the Atlanta Police Deptartment. "The benefit of our new system is we can put the palm print into the system along with the fingerprints we now hold."