"There is no access to overseas criminal databases at immigration points," he said.

"Documentation" is the preferred term for the process of populating criminal databases.

This data is then stored in the FBI's criminal databases.

Many Tasmania Police general patrol vehicles are now equipped with data terminals, used to interrogate criminal and traffic databases.

Beauprez's campaign manager, John Marshall told a local news station, "In federal criminal databases, the guy's information matches up."

For every person booked into jail, local authorities run fingerprints against federal immigration and criminal databases.

Officer Synder let him go after running his license plate and name in criminal databases.

The fingerprints will be checked immediately against computerized intelligence and criminal databases already available to immigration agents at the ports.

Many agents use computers that cannot store basic investigative information in primary criminal databases like "photographs, graphical and tabular data."

Member countries can also access each other's criminal databases via the I-24/7 system.