By Meghan McCorkell
CBS Baltimore
BALTIMORE (WJZ) — Baltimore City police have enlisted the help of a vampire to help combat crime. Vampire is new technology allowing crime scene technicians to process fingerprints found on a scene in seconds.
City police will be among the first in the country to use the technology to instantly process fingerprints.
It’s like something you’d see on CSI, but the Vampire Forensic Tactical Device will soon be here in Baltimore.
“It gives us that real time intelligence and real time crime-solving ability,” said city crime lab director Steven O’Dell.
The cutting edge device allows crime scene technicians to lift and search fingerprints within seconds.
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