M.S.P. FORENSIC SCIENCE DIVISION ON THE CUTTING EDGE OF ADVANCING TECHNOLOGY

• New DNA typing methods, which enable forensic laboratories to identify an individual more conclusively: Lansing, Grand Rapids, and Northville Laboratories.

• Live Scan fingerprint system, which allows police to compare a suspect's fingerprints taken at the point of arrest with millions of fingerprints in an AFIS file within minutes.

• Lasers and other new crime scene equipment that can be used at crime scenes to help detect, retrieve and collect physical evidence.

• Computer-assisted image enhancement systems, which enable forensic scientists to store, enhance and compare various images such as handwriting, fingerprints, toolmarks, and other pattern evidence using the latest computer technology: Bridgeport, Lansing, Grand Rapids, Grayling, Northville and Sterling Heights Laboratories.

• Vacuum metal deposition for latent print development: Bridgeport Lab.

• Artificial intelligence and expert systems, which allow the investigator to model and represent investigative theories, develop crime scene reasoning and logic, and profile criminals.

• IBIS (Integrated Ballistics Identification System) - Image scanning of fired bullets and cartridge cases to link shooting crimes, and eventually the weapon used:  IBIS - Bridgeport, Lansing, Grand Rapids, Northville, and Sterling Heights Laboratories, and Detroit Police Department.