CARBDONDALE, Ill. (WJPF) – The City of Carbondale Police Department recently added a new technology to enhance investigations of incidents involving firearms.
Through a grant obtained through the Illinois Law Enforcement Training and Standards Board, the department was able to purchase a system called BRASSTRAX cartridge case acquisition system.
The new technology will reduce the time required for shell casings found at the scenes of shooting incidents to be analyzed.
In the past, fired shell casings found at shooting scenes were sent to the Illinois State Police Crime Lab to be analyzed. Due to large caseloads statewide, this process could take weeks or months. Now, Carbondale officers and investigators can quickly determine that a particular firearm fired the cartridge casing in question within hours or days of the incident.
