Monday, December 5, 2011

Fingerprints

What is fingerprint identification?
Fingerprints are the person’s identity and have so much value to an investigation.   That is the indispensable clarification fingerprints have established to be to the forensic world as of letting them be able to solve a crime and arrest the delinquents. Since every person is different so are the fingerprints of each individual and technology now a days is so advanced that it can check thousands of fingerprints at once to find who they belong to in a minute.
Just  like DNA, Fingerprints are also self define and are all unique. Therefor, the suspects are esily identified if such clue is found at the crime scene.











TYPES OF FINGERPRINTS
There are mainly tree groups of fingerprints which are the following:
 
Then they are broken in into sub-groups.












Now that you have identified fingerprint patterns I will show you how to lift them from  places that could be left at a crime scene.
This is how to copy fingerrprints
1. use flour,cornstarch, or any powder
2. gently apply  the powder with a brush
3. using a piece of tape cover the fingerprints
4. then gently pull the tape and you will have the fingerprints in the other side
5.cover the tape so that it doesn't come in contact with any other fingerprints
6. you have successfully lifted fingerprints left by skin patters that skin oils leave behind of a person

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