 The FBI highlighting a milestone for a key investigation tool. Matt Mattson has more. The agency marked the 100th anniversary of its fingerprinting technology during a ceremony at its West Virginia branch on Wednesday. The Bureau established its Identification Division, or IDENT, back in 1924. It was tasked with using prints from law enforcement agencies across the country in order to connect the dots on cases. Technology has improved since then, with the FBI saying that it used to take weeks to find matches.