On CBS dramas like "Criminal Minds," "CSI" and "Person of Interest," it happens in seconds. A couple of key strokes and crimes are solved and lives are saved. It may not happen that quickly in real life, but new technology is improving the chances of getting the criminals.

“I will tell you I don’t go into medical records and I can’t do it as fast as she does,” says Jackie Flory, a crime analyst at the Daytona Beach Police Department. But what crime analysts can do with new technology helps detectives and can protect people of Central Florida.

“It does help them (get) one step closer to the bad guy,” said Flory. Flory is using a program developed by the Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office called "FACES" or Face Analysis Comparison Examination System.

It matches the face of the criminal gathered from surveillance video to a potential suspect.

“It focuses on the algorithms between the eyes, the nose, the mouth,” said Flory. The program sifts through nearly 30 million photos from Florida from mug shots to driver’s license pictures and offers up potential matches.

“That’s where the human aspect comes in where I literally have to look at it,” said Flory as she explained, “you have to match up scars, you have to match up nose, mouth birthmarks.”

A woman accused of bank fraud in DeLand wasn’t the first match Flory found, but the culprit was listed several mug shots down the page. […]