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Ballistics ID system flawed

Published 01/18/05

BALTIMORE - A law requiring state police to collect ballistics information from each handgun sold in the state should be repealed because the expensive system is flawed and has not helped a criminal investigation since it was adopted in 2000, a state police report has concluded.

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The report recommends transferring laboratory technicians who work on the Integrated Ballistics Identification System to the state police DNA Database Unit.

"The program simply has not met expectations and does not aid in the mission statement of the Department of State Police," according to the report.

Col. Thomas E. Hutchins, the state police...

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