A loophole exists in the criminal justice system whereby individuals who are fugitives from justice evade being positively identified and thus tied to their past unlawful actions. NCIC at FBI headquarters in Washington, D.C. is a nationwide inquiry/response information system available 24 hours a day to all local, State, and Federal criminal justice agencies. In 1989, the FBI initiated a pilot image project by combining the technology of FINGERMATRIX, Inc. with that of several vendors to develop image transmission of a black-and-white mug shot and a fingerprint image of wanted subjects over NCIC equipment and telecommunication lines to a two-way radio base station transmitter, then out over a radio frequency into receiving equipment in a patrol car. The ability to have a photograph and fingerprint transmitted within seconds to and from the patrol car provides the officer with irrefutable evidence as to whether or not an individual temporarily detained is identical to a wanted person on file at a local, State or national level.