OSBI Shares New Program That Will Speed Up Investigations On The Porch

A new program at the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation will provide timely investigative leads to help law enforcement.

Criminalist Kate Millar came to the Arca Continental Coca-Cola Southwest Beverages Porch to discuss how the program works.

The new program is called FastTRAX, and Millar said it uses the 'NIBIN' which allows law enforcement agencies to bring firearms and cartridge cases from crime scenes and have them entered into a database.

"Once they're entered into the database, the database is searched and we can link shooting incidents," Millar said. "This is gonna be done a lot quicker than it is now."

She said right now, officers submit firearms and it takes around a week for it to be entered into a database, whereas this new system will allow it to be entered on the same day.

"They'll be able to walk in and walk out with their evidence, they don't lose custody of their evidence," Millar said.

Millar said this will speed up to process of connecting guns to incidents across a city or town and across the state.

She said if two incidents are linked in the database within three months, that gun is very likely to be used again. 

"If we're able to link those two incidents and then get that shooter off the street, that third incident never happens, saving lives," Millar said.