That sounds suspiciously like a scene from Police Academy 5: Assignment: Miami Beach. The hit man inadvertently gets pulled into a fingerprint demonstration while trying to pull off his job. The fancy new electronic fingerprint machine instantly pulls him him as a wanted felon, and he runs out of the room.srothstein wrote:Well, there are documented cases of people applying for police jobs and getting arrested for outstanding warrants when they do the fingerprint check.
One story (possibly apocryphal, I cannot verify it) I remember is a group of potential recruits going through the LAPD process. This was along the lines of a tour of the facility and PR dog and pony show to get the people interested in applying. When they got to the fingerprint section, they went to demonstrate how it works and asked for a volunteer. One young man volunteered and then found out how it works. He was promptly arrested for an outstanding Murder warrant.
Moral of the story is to never volunteer to demonstrate anything for the police. That is a good rule for the academy life as well as military life.
