1. Dactylography
Fingerprinting!

2. When was fingerprinting discovered?
The first recorded use of fingerprints was in china roughly 3000 years ago
They were used to authenticate an endorse documents

3. What are finger prints?
Every living person has a unique set of fingerprints.
They are a complex pattern of ridges and depressions on the tips of your fingers
They grow back, unless the damage is extreme
Your fingerprints develop at 5 months gestation, and never change
You also have unique prints from other areas of skin on your body –lip, foot, toe… etc.

4. Types of fingerprint patterns

5. Types of fingerprint patterns
𝟐 𝟑 of people have loops
Radial (loop towards little finger side)
Ulna (loop towards thumb side)
𝟏 𝟑 of people have whorls
Plain, double loop, accidental & central pocket loop
𝟏 𝟐𝟎 of people have arches
Plain (smooth wave)
Tented (tapers to a point in the centre)

6. How are they created
The grooves of your fingerprints contain glands that secrete sweat (salts & water), oils and amino acids.
A little of this is left on every surface you touch

7. Types of fingerprints Patent (aka visible prints)
Visible to the naked eye
Produced when the finger has been in contact with another substance (paint, blood, ink) then transferred onto a surface
Do not require further processing

8. What sort of fingerprint?
Tented arch

9. What sort of fingerprint?
Radial loop

10. What sort of fingerprint?
arch

11. Fingerprint minutiae

12. Fingerprint minutiae

13. What sorts of minutiae? Ridge ending Ridge ending bifurcation
Cross over

14. Pressure can change appearance

15. All primates have prints

16. Even Koalas have prints
Koala human

17. Collecting Fingerprints
Right Side
Thumb
Fore Finger
Middle Finger
Ring Finger
Little Finger
Left Side
Pattern
Pattern

18. Collecting fingerprints
Using a 2B pencil make a THICK layer of graphite in a small rectangular area of your page.
Roll your finger around in the graphite till well coated
Cut a small section of sticky tape and press it to your finger (sticky side down)
Transfer the sticky tape print to the relevant box in your table
Complete the steps above for each finger

19. Collecting Fingerprints
Identify the pattern of each print
Identify any variations (circle in red pen)

20. Types of fingerprints Latent invisible to the naked eye
requires additional processing to be seen. can include basic powder techniques or the use of chemicals

21. Types of fingerprints Plastic They are three-dimensional impressions
made by pressing your fingers in things like fresh paint, wax, soap, or tar.
They are easily seen by the human eye and do not require additional processing

22. Surfaces
Non Porous materials are generally non absorbent and produce clear finger prints
These materials consistent of things like: metallic objects, glass, ceramics, mirrors, plastics, painted or polished surfaces… etc

23. Surfaces
Porous materials generally absorb body fluids, and are difficult (but not impossible) to collect fingerprints from
These materials consistent of things like: fabrics, stone, raw timber, carpets…etc

24. Collecting Fingerprints
There are two categories for methods of fingerprint collection.
Manual
Dusting with powders
Chemical
Coating/dusting with chemicals to cause a chemical reaction (colour change)

25. Matching features of print
Level 1: the type of print
Level 2: :minutiae. These are the details in a fingerprint. There are big details like starting lines, splitting lines and line fragments.
Level 3: smaller details like pores, incipient ridges, and lineshapes.