Fingerprint examinations

We touch things a day – a coffee cup, a car door, a computer keyboard, etc. each time we do it is likely that we leave behind our unique signature -in our fingerprint.

Principal of fingerprint analysis:

Fingerprints are unique patterns, made by friction ridges and farrows, which appear on the pads of the fingers and thumbs. Prints from palms, toes, and feet are also unique; however, these are used less often for identification, so this guide focuses on prints from the finger and thumb.

Fingerprint expert services:

• Examine the fingerprint on the crime scene
• Development of fingerprints from objects like glass, or glass surface, wooden surface, and plastic surface.
• Development of fingerprints from paper
• Lifting fingerprints from the crime scene
• Photography of fingerprint samples.
• Matching of a fingerprint found at the crime scene with the suspects.
• Examination of fingerprints and thumb impressions on documents like wills, deeds, and agreements, government registries.

Forensic fingerprint expert:

Fingerprint experts use in-depth knowledge in the examination and analysis of unknown fingerprints and suspicious fingerprints.