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To: steve who wrote (10047)	8/25/1998 8:42:00 AM
From: Rob C.	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 26039

A news release today...SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 25, 1998--Identix Inc. (ASE:IDX.A), a leading provider worldwide of live-scan and biometric verification systems, Tuesday announced that the New York Police Department ordered an additional 14 Identix TouchPrint 600(TM) (TP-600) workstations. The TP-600 workstations are being installed at NYPD precincts by Tacoma, Wash.-based Sagem Morpho Inc. (Morpho), a subsidiary of Paris-based SAGEM SA. Previously, the Department had installed TP-600 units at each of its 73 precincts. The TP-600 workstations were shipped by Identix in the fourth quarter of fiscal 1998 ended June 30, 1998. The TP-600 workstations will interface with the City's Morpho AFIS and will be able to capture with maximum accuracy and speed both a suspect's full fingerprints, as well as whatever ancillary information on prior arrests and other data are available. The information is then to be transmitted electronically both to NYPD headquarters at One Police Plaza and to the New York State Police in Albany, or singly to one or the other, depending on the gravity of the offense or application purpose. An estimated 1,500 individuals are processed daily. According to Sagem Morpho Senior Vice President of Business Development Tim Nitzsche-Ruggles, the Morpho and Identix workstation meet the strict New York City requirements for overall excellence in performance and image quality. "In 1996, New York City purchased a Morpho AFIS to interface with the state's Morpho AFIS, contracted for in 1988," Nitzsche-Ruggles said. "This order is a further endorsement by one of the nation's largest police departments of our ability to provide the latest in law enforcement products." Identix Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer Randall C. Fowler commented, "The NYPD has one of the largest and most sophisticated identification/verification systems to date in a single urban police department. Live-scan fingerprinting has cut in half the time needed by the NYPD to obtain suspects' criminal records from the state, while also substantially reducing the rejection rate. This provides the department significant time and cost savings, and enables officers to return more quickly to the streets," he said. Sagem Morpho Inc. is a high technology imaging corporation specializing in computerized fingerprint matching systems. The company is a wholly owned subsidiary of European technology giant SAGEM SA of Paris, France. SAGEM SA and Sagem Morpho Inc. are world leaders in automated fingerprint identification systems (AFIS). The Morpho AFIS family of products is used in a variety of security applications worldwide, including law enforcement, document security and national defense. Identix is a leader in designing, developing, manufacturing and marketing products for the capture and/or comparison of fingerprints for security, anti-fraud, law enforcement and other applications. The statements in this release that relate to future plans, events or performance are forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties, including risks associated with uncertainties pertaining to customer orders, orders from and contracts with government entities, availability of government funds, competition, demand for products and services, development of markets for the company's products and services and other risks as identified in the company's SEC filings. Actual results, events and performance may differ materially. The company undertakes no obligation to publicly update these forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances that occur after the date hereof or to reflect the occurrence of unanticipated events. --30--JS/np* KM/np CONTACT: Allen & Caron Inc. Damon Wright (investors) Owen Daley (media) 714/957-8440 KEYWORD: CALIFORNIA INDUSTRY KEYWORD: COMPUTERS/ELECTRONICS COMED Today's News On The Net - Business Wire's full file on the Internet with Hyperlinks to your home page. URL: businesswire.com Copyright 1998, Business Wire