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2000 April Report of the Auditor General of Canada
Exhibit 7.8—Award for Excellence
In 1994, the RCMP received a "Hit of the Year" award from Printrak International (an equipment supplier). The award was for solving a gruesome murder case in New Brunswick in only two days, by lifting a crime-scene print and checking against the fingerprint database. The murderer was not one of the four suspects the RCMP had initially identified. He had left New Brunswick and, through the use of fingerprint technology, was located in the Hamilton region. The RCMP said more murders were likely if the individual had not been apprehended. He had already committed a murder before going to New Brunswick.
Source: RCMP Quarterly, Fall 1995 (RCMP Publication)