During this community event, the Keene Police Association's SentryKIDS FingerTIPS Child Fingerprint Program Officers will take your child's fingerprints and photo, and add them to an info. sheet about your child (based on info. you provide). Then, they'll print out the info. sheet for you to keep at home in a safe place, in the event it is needed to help your child in an emergency situation. (The information gathered is not stored permanently.)
After seeing the Officers and getting their Bio-Doc, kids can bounce in a bouncy tent, play with a GIANT playground ball, get a balloon, color and have some popcorn.
From the Keene Police Officers Association . . .
Statistics show that 34% of parents in the US do not know their child's exact height, weight and eye and hair color. When a child is reported missing, time can be the greatest adversary. The first few hours of any investigation into a missing child are extremely critical. Possessing up-to-date photographs and detailed information about a child can prove to be important proactive measures that can greatly assist local law enforcement officials to quickly respond to a child's disappearance.
The Keene Police Officers Association, with the help of the Keene ELKS Lodge #927, the Keene Emblem Club, the Cheshire Medical Center, Peerless Insurance Company and Circuit City, have purchased the SentryKIDS® FingerTIPS child fingerprint software program.
The KPO Association is the first Law Enforcement affiliated organization in the State of New Hampshire to utilize the SentryKIDS® FingerTIPS fingerprint system.
The SentryKIDS® FingerTIPS software is a robust software program that electronically captures 10 fingerprints or 2 thumbprints, photo and vital biographical information. The FingerTIPS software program produces two popular ID formats (Bio-Doc & Bio-Disk). FingerTIPS can print a Bio-Doc – an 8.5 x 11 inch document that includes a color digital photo, 10 finger prints and personal information of the person fingerprinted to include parental information as well as distinguishing marks. This Bio-Doc can be printed on plain bond paper or on pre-printed cards. Fingerprints can also be saved to a CD Disk or Bio-Disk and can be viewed on any computer. (The Officers do not retain the information permanently on the computer, the Doc or CD or Disk is given to the parent or guardian.) Please bring whatever information you would like printed on the Bio-Doc with you – Social Security number, addresses, phone/cell numbers, etc.
The FingerTIPS system is used by other agencies such as the Boston Police Department and the Klaas Kids Foundation for Children. As of 3/10/03 the KlaasKids Foundation operates 7 SentryKIDS® FingerTIPS systems and has fingerprinted over 250,000 of our Nation's Children.
Having up-to-date information on your child will enable law enforcement agencies to electronically disseminate essential missing child information, statewide if necessary, within minutes – and dramatically increase the possibility of bringing a missing child home unharmed. Time is of the essence and the SentryKIDS® FingerTIPS Fingerprint Card will save time in obtaining the necessary information ordinarily lost as such information is gathered through the normal interview process. In addition to being able to quickly provide important details to police agencies investigating child disappearances, the SentryKIDS® FingerTIPS Fingerprint Card will serve as an important tool when used in conjunction with the New Hampshire AMBER Alert System.
Fingerprint Project 2006 * c/o Keene Police Officers Association * P.O. Box 1416, Keene, NH 03431 * (603) 283-7600 * www.kpoa.net * kpoa@ne.rr.com
