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dard format contains 14 impressions: ten “rolled” fingerprint impressions
of each finger and four “plain” fingerprint impressions; one of the right
thumb, one of the left thumb, one with the four fingers of the right hand
taken simultaneously, and one with the four fingers of the left hand taken
simultaneously.
TENPRINT CARD SUBMISSION—A fingerprint card submitted to the
FBI by mail or as a facsimile or other electronic image for the purpose
of identification and possible incorporation into the FBI’s fingerprint
repository.
TENPRINT IMAGE SEARCH—An electronic transaction submitted to the FBI,
which contains fingerprint images, classification information as required by
the AFIS/FBI, or remotely extracted fingerprint characteristics. The subse-
quent FBI search will be conducted automatically with no additional manual
editing or processing. If candidates are identified, the candidates’ FBI
numbers are returned to the transmitting agency along with fingerprint
images from the highest scoring candidates. The search request is performed
automatically by AFIS/FBI without human involvement.
TIFF—Tagged image file format. An image file format with the “.tif” file exten-
sion. TIFF images can be either lossless or lossy.
TP—Tenprint record.
TPid—Tenprint identification database consisting of two finger images, usually
the index fingers, sometimes the thumbs.
TPlc—Tenprint identification database consisting of all ten finger images. May
be a subset of the TPid database. Used in latent to tenprint (LT/TPlc)
searches.
TP/TPid—Search of a tenprint record against the records in the tenprint
database.
TP/UL—Tenprint to unsolved latent search. New tenprint records are searched
against the records in the unsolved latent file. The expectation is that the
owner of the latent print did not have a record in the tenprint database at
the time of the LT/TP search. The TP/UL search ensures that the complete
database has been searched, including new and updated records.
TRANSPOSITION—Incorrect position of hands on tenprint card, e.g., images
of the right hand appear in boxes for the left hand. In the past, identifica-
tion staff would visually inspect the rolled impressions against the plain
impressions for consistency. Livescan software and extraction and compari-
son reduce this on digitally retrieved images.
TWAIN—Technology without an important name. Image acquisition and
output protocol commonly used between computers and printers and image
capture devices.
UCR—Uniform crime report. Voluntary reporting to the FBI CJIS Division.
Reportable crimes include murder and non-negligent manslaughter, forcible