Police to roll out mobile fingerprinting / computing.co.uk, 11 June 2008
http://www.computing.co.uk/computing/news/2218782/police-roll-mobile
"Twenty forces now able to check people's fingerprints on the beat, in real time. A plan to provide police officers on the beat with mobile fingerprinting devices is to be further rolled out after an 18-month trial showed average time savings of 30 minutes..."