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Orlando Police Streamline Gun Database
Posted: Tuesday, February 3, 2009
Updated: February 3rd, 2009 10:24 AM EDT
ORLANDO, Fla. --
Orlando police have a new plan to catch violent criminals. They're now using a gun database similar to a DNA database to track down guns used in crimes and the people who pulled the trigger.
The police have already had some success with it. The Orlando-based Florida Department of Law Enforcement lab matched up a cartridge casing used in a homicide last month in Orlando to another gun crime in Orange County.
Matching casings to solve crimes isn't new, but Orlando police have streamlined the process to solve crimes faster.
FDLE has been comparing casings in the Orlando lab since 2001 to try and link crimes and catch the criminals who fired the gun. They work old cases first and then focus on new ones, but the lab is backed up and it's expected to take two years to clear all the cases currently in the system.
Instead of waiting, Orland police are now brining their casings from new crimes into the lab weekly and they are being tested immediately.
"We didn't have to wait months, we didn't have to wait weeks. We got that information right away," explained Lt. Victor Uvalle, Orlando Police Department.
Orlando police are bringing about 20 guns a week to be tested at the state lab. The program is funded by a federal grant.
Meanwhile, the state is training three more lab techs who will to focus on the two-year backlog.
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