How good do you think you'd be at fingerprint analysis?

How good do you think you'd be at fingerprint analysis?

Let's give it a go.

There's a fingermark on this newspaper. What would be the best technique to enhance it?

Ninhydrin dye is the best treatment for enhancement of latent prints on porous surfaces like newspaper.

Cyanoacrylate

Ninhydrin dye

Silver nitrate

Fluorescent fingerprint powder

There's a smeary bloodstained blob that has been wiped down. How might you enhance it?

fluorescent polymer attaches to the smallest trace of blood

Cyanoacrylate

Alternate light source

Fluorescent polymer

Ninhyrin dye

What is the most prominent feature of this fingerprint

The most prominent feature of this fingerprint is a whorl.

whorl

Arch

Delta

Hook

Can you see any minutiae on this fingerprint?

There are prominent Islands and bifurcation on this fingerprint.

Island, bifircation

spur, pore

double bifircation, trifircation

delta, dot

Test your observation. Do these fingerprints match?

The fingerprints are similar but there are not 12 matching features or minutiae.

Yes

No

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