Someone broke in my home cops took finger prints.?

Question

Someone broke in my home, cops took finger prints analysis.

So they stole my laptop, tv,vcr.

They came in through my portable ac unit. And left some finger prints.

How long does it take to get the results.

I reside in Houston Police department

Texas.

Answer 1

why ask us? You have a crime number reference from the Police Department. A simple call to them should suffice.

Answer 2

Honestly, it may take a while. Unlike what you see of CSI, where they can always ID a person in minutes. It doesn't always work that way. There is a real possiblity that the person may have never been printed or the prints that were taken were distorted and unreadable.

Burglary cases are sometimes solved and sometime sit inactive for quite a while until new information becomes available. In your case it may be solved when a person is booked and printed. Those prints are entered into what is called AFIS. Automated Fingerprint Identification System. If a check is made, the AFIS will indicate a

"hit" meaning that the prints are linked to another crime or investigation.    

Answer 3

shouldn't take that long. just depends on how busy they are.

if it's been over two months then you should contact them about it.

Answer 4

the, people probably didn't have a record and they didnt find them yet  

Answer 5

It can take quite a while. The actual time involved is not too great. If I had nothing else to do, and the prints were good, I could do it all before lunch. But it's in line with a LOT of other print work.

If they prints are of sufficient quality and sufficient detail to produce a reasonable number of potential sources whose prints are already stored in AFIS, it has to checked to see that it's not just your print and then be scanned, and an operator has to work though the process of selecting out false details, like where the print runs out, which isn't a natural detail of ridges coming to an end but just where they didn't make an impression. AFIS presents any stored records that, according to it's algorithm, are worth looking at. Any that can't be immediately elliminated are passed to an examiner to determine if they can be identified. Large print units - and HPD's is very large and busy - have a huge caseload.  

Answer 6

Were you insured for your loss? If not it could be months before you hear anything, and your goods could be wrecked too! such a shame!