Now Suffolk officers can transmit prints from the new workstations directly to the central system, known as AFIS, short for Automated Fingerprint Identification System, installed in 1987.
He also succeeded in scrapping pet peeves from the bills, like $1 million for State Controller John Chiang to buy new workstations.
Detective Charles Scharff of the Seventh Precinct in Shirley, the first Suffolk police officer to use one of the new workstations in a real case, said the new system was a hit with police officers and suspects alike.
The open-space design of the floors, each about the size of three football fields, is being maintained -- with walls of new workstations reaching only part way to the ceilings to preserve views from most sections of the building through the expansive windows.
HP also does a lot of industrial design to ensue that the physical case of their new workstations meets their customer needs.
But there were delays in shipping its new workstations, and in the end the company wasnt big enough to compete against Compaq Computer cpq, Dell Computer dell and other makers of PC workstations.
