Local police in this Chinese capital now use a computerized portable device to collect the fingerprints of suspects in an effort to detect criminal activities.
Local police seldom used fingerprint detection technology to uncover criminal cases until the 1990s, when computerized fingerprint detector was adopted.
Last August, a new fingerprint equipment, dubbed as "CAFI--JH Fingerprint Collector", was put into use in local police stations.
So far, a number of criminal cases have been uncovered by local police with the help of the new device.
(People's Daily February 10, 2002)
