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LABORATORY
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FINGERPRINT
EXAMINER
INFLUENCES ON THE OVERALL PROCESS
Forensic Regulator Scientific Support Managers
COURT
Crown Prosecution Service
Senior Investigating Officer
Insufficient quality fingermarks
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Home Office CAST
advice / recommendations
Equipment providers, systems providers
and technology manufacturers
Unable to develop fingermarks in situ;
collect evidential item
Potential trace evidence collection
Equipment providers, systems
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Identification found
Identification agreed
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FINGERPRINT EVIDENCE PROCESSES, STAKEHOLDERS AND INFLUENCES
JANUARY 2014
Regulation, Accreditation
& Training
Research & Development
Research & Development
Policing / Law Enforcement
Industry
STAKEHOLDER KEY
Insufficient quality for
comparison / exclusion
Technology
manufacturers
(remote transmission)
Scientific Support
Courier System
Locate item of evidence likely to yield fingermarks
AND / OR
Locate / develop fingermarks & determine quality
Compare with exemplar fingerprint
Evaluate the presence of any features that
are not consistent between the two prints
Access suspect tenprint images OR
run IDENT1 search on crime scene fingermarks
Recover developed fingermarks.
Photograph / lift / scan prints in situ
Analyse fingermark
Suitable quality for
comparison / exclusion
Protection of Freedoms Act
Streamlined Forensic Reporting
Elimination found
Verify match
(carried out by second examiner)
Elimination found
Presentation of identification evidence /
elimination evidence to Jury / Magistrate
Justification of methodology
to Jury / Magistrate
Statement provided
Chemical / physical
treatment sequence chosen
Treatment sequence carried out
Examination of item
Determine quality of fingermarks
Sufficient quality fingermarks
recorded & submitted to Bureau
Police force
photographic department
External Provider Research Program
Home Office CAST research
Academic Research
The Association of
Forensic Science Providers
Home Office CAST
advice / recommendations
College of Policing Training Input
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