DENVER (CBS4) – Police officers in Denver will soon have a new tool to help identify suspects who lie about their identity. The City of Denver recently approved $260,000 in the 2016 budget to purchase mobile fingerprinting technology. DPD’s gang unit was equipped with the devices in a pilot program last fall. Officers say the fingerprinting units provided instant answers and cut down on cases of mistaken identity.

Take the case of Bryce Wilhite. When Denver police officers contacted him last year, they say he lied, telling them he was his twin brother, Aaron. But officers used a mobile fingerprint scanner which instantaneously told them the man they questioned was not Aaron Wilhite, but Bryce Wilhite, who had an outstanding warrant. He was immediately arrested.

Denver Police Lieutenant John Pettinger oversaw the pilot program, “We frequently have times when someone that we contact doesn’t have an identification card and gives us a name that is not their name.”

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