Every crime gun has a story to tell and our FASTTRAX™ services can help you uncover it more quickly and with fewer resources because we process your forensic ballistic evidence for you.

FASTTRAX can help you learn if the gun you seized from a suspect was used to commit crimes such as murders and drive-by shootings. It can also help you link multiple crimes and generate new leads.

FASTTRAX can help police agencies and crime laboratories with access to the National Integrated Ballistics Information Network (NIBIN) gain more benefits from this database while they strive to deal with heavy workloads from rising levels of assaults, gang violence and murders committed with firearms.

Even more importantly, FASTTRAX can be of substantial benefit to those police agencies that do not have access to IBIS® or NIBIN, by empowering them to take more control of generating leads for their investigations and contribute to the collective value of NIBIN at the same time.

FASTTRAX can also help forensic laboratories reduce ballistic evidence backlogs. By overcoming delays in ballistic evidence processing, armed criminals may be stopped before they have the opportunity to shoot and kill again.

The entire criminal justice system benefits whenever technology like IBIS and data-sharing networks like NIBIN are fully optimized.

The FastTRAX Services operation in Largo, Florida has been accredited by Forensic Quality Services according to the International Standards for Testing and Calibration Laboratories known as ISO-17025. 

The FastTRAX operation in Largo is accredited to enter cartridge case exhibits into NIBIN and analyze correlation results to identify potential matches in the NIBIN database.

Accreditation is based on assessment of an agency’s technical qualifications and competence for conducting specific testing activities within the scope of ISO/IEC 17025:2005 and any relevant field specific standards included in amplification documents which are also part of the program.

Is ISO Relevant To the Needs of a Forensic Testing Laboratory?

Yes, the program consists of three parts: One part deals with management system, verifying that you have the systems to do the right thing in the right way. The second part deals with technical matters, addressing quality assurance at the testing, evaluation, and reporting levels. The third area utilizes a set of field specific criteria to illustrate compliance factors in the test area.

FQS-I's program uses field criteria based on the international consensus guide for forensic science published by the International Laboratory Accreditation Cooperation (ILAC) (www.ilac.org), as well as any relevant national QA criteria (such as those published by the various Scientific Working Groups (SWG). FQS-I also provides a range of guidelines to assist with specific clauses in the standard.