PERSONAL IDENTIFICATION REVIEWER

Alphonse Bertillon - was a French criminologist and anthropologist who created the first system
of physical measurements, photography, and record-keeping that police could use to identify
recidivist criminals.

Ancient Babylon - fingerprints were used in clay tablets for business transactions. 1000 - 2000
BC

Anthropometry - the first system of personal identification.

Azizul Haque and Hem Chandra Bose(1897) - Two Indian fingerprint experts credited with
primary development of the Henry System of fingerprint classification (named after their supervisor,
Edward Richard Henry).

Bertillon System - a system of identification which focuses on the meticulous measurement and
recording of different parts and components of the human body.

Chiroscopy It is the examination and thorough study of the palms of the human hand as a point
indentifying persons.

Core - 1. Approximate center of the pattern

2. It is placed upon or within the innermost sufficient recurve.

Delta - 1. point on a ridge at or nearest to the point of divergence of two typelines and
2. is located at or directly in front of the point of divergence.

Dr. Henry P. DeForrest - he accomplished the first fingerprint file established in the United States,
and the first use of fingerprinting by a U.S. government agency.

Dr. Nehemiah Grew - in 1684, he was the first European to publish friction ridge skin observations.

Edgeoscopy the study of the morphological characteristics of friction ridges; shape or contour of
the edges of friction ridges.

Edmond Locard - informally referred to as the Sherlock Holmes of France,he developed the
science of poroscopy, the study of fingerprint pores and the impressions produced by these pores.
He went on to write that if 12 specific points were identical between two fingerprints, it would be
sufficient for positive identification. This work led to the use of
fingerprints in identifying criminals being adopted over Bertillon's earlier technique of
anthropometry.

Fingerprint - is an impression of the friction ridge of all or any part of the finger. Fingerprint ridges
are formed during the third to fourth month of fetal development.

Fingerprint Classification Systems

1. The Henry Classification System developed by Henry in the late 1800s.

2. Icnofalangometric System the original name of the system developed by Vucetichin 1891
3. Dactiloscopy the new name of the systemdeveloped by Vucetich.
4. The Oloriz System of Classification developed by Oloriz.
Identakey developed in the 1930s by G. Tyler Mairs.
5. The American System of Fingerprint Classification developed by Parke in1903.
 6. The Conley System. The Flack-ConleySystem developed in 1906 in New Jersey, an
improved Conley System.
7. NCIC Fingerprint Classification System.
Collins System a classification system for single fingerprints used in Scotland Yard in the
early 1900s.
8. Jorgensen System a classification system for single fingerprints used in the early1900s.
9. Battley System a classification system for single fingerprints used in the 1930s

Gilbert Thompson - He used his thumb print on a document to prevent forgery. First known use of
fingerprints in the U.S.

John Evangelist Purkinje - anatomy professor at the University of Breslau, in 1823, he published
his thesis discussing nine fingerprint patterns but he made no mention of the value of fingerprints
for personal identification.

Juan Vucetich - In 1892, two boys were brutally murdered in the village of Necochea, near
Buenos Aires, Argentina. Initially, suspicion fell on a man named Velasquez, a suitor of the
children's mother, Francisca Rojas. Investigators found a bloody fingerprint at the crime scene and
contacted Juan Vucetich, who was developing a system of fingerprint identification for police use.
Vucetich compared the fingerprints of Rojas and Velasquez with the bloody fingerprint. Francisca
Rojas had denied touching the bloody bodies, but the
fingerprint matched one of hers. Confronted with the evidence, she confessedthe first successful
use of fingerprint identification in a murder investigation.

Loop - 1. One or more ridges enter upon either side

2. Recurve
3. Touch or pass an imaginary line between delta and core
4. Pass out or tend to pass out upon the same side the ridges
entered.

Three Loop Characteristics

1. A sufficient recurve
2. A Delta
3. A ridge count across a looping ridge

Marcelo Malpighi - in 1686, an anatomy professor at the University of Bologna, noted fingerprint
ridges, spirals and loops in his treatise. A layer of skin was named after him; "Malpighi" layer, which
is approximately 1.8mm thick.

Mark Twain - author of the novel Pudd'nhead Wilson where one of the characters has a hobby of
collecting fingerprints.

Paul-Jean Coulier - of Val-de-Grce in Paris, published his observations that (latent) fingerprints
can be developed on paper by iodine fuming, explaining how to preserve (fix) such developed
impressions and mentioning the potential for identifying suspects' fingerprints by use of a
magnifying glass.

Poroscopy refers to the examination of the shape, size and arrangement of the small opening
on friction ridge through which body fluids are secreted or released.

Podoscopy a term coined by Wilder and Wentwrth which refers to the examination of the soles
and their significance in personal identification.
Ridgeology describes the individualization process of any area of friction skin using allavailable
detail.

Ridge Characteristics
1. Ridge Dots - An isolated ridge unit whose length approximates its width in size.
2. Bifurcations - The point at which one friction ridge divides into two friction ridges.
3. Trifurcations - The point at which one friction ridge divides into three friction ridges.
4. Ending Ridge - A single friction ridge that terminates within the friction ridge structure.
5. Ridge Crossing - A point where two ridge units intersect.
6. Enclosures (Lakes) - A single friction ridge that bifurcates and rejoins after a short course and
continues as a single friction ridge.
7. Short Ridges (Islands) - Friction ridges of varying lengths.
8. Spurs (Hooks) - A bifurcation with one short ridge branching off a longer ridge.
9. Bridges - A connecting friction ridge between parallel running ridges, generally right angles.

Sir Edward Richard Henry - he was appointed Inspector-General of Police of Bengal, India in
1891, he developed a system of fingerprint classification enabling fingerprint records to be
organised and searched with relative ease.

Sir Francis Galton - He devised a method of classifying fingerprints that proved useful in forensic
science. He pointed out that there were specific types of fingerprint patterns. He described and
classified them into eight broad categories: 1: plain arch, 2: tented arch,
3: simple loop, 4: central pocket loop, 5: double loop, 6: lateral pocket loop, 7: plain whorl, and 8:
accidental

Sir Henry Faulds - his first paper on the subject of fingerprint was published in the scientific
journal Nature in 1880. Examining his own fingertips and those of friends, he became convinced
that the pattern of ridges was unique to each individual.

Sir William James Herschel - was a British officer in India who used fingerprints for identification
on contracts.

Time Line - Fingerprints

1000-2000 B.C. - Fingerprints were used on clay tablets for business transactions in ancient
Babylon.

3rd Century B.C. - Thumbprints begin to be used on clay seals in China to sign documents.

610-907 A.D. - During the Tang Dynasty, a time when imperial China was one of the most
powerful and wealthy regions of the world, fingerprints are reportedly used on official documents.

1st Century A.D. - A petroglyph located on a cliff face in Nova Scotia depicts a hand with
exaggerated ridges and finger whorls, presumably left by the Mi'kmaq people.

14th Century A.D. - Many official government documents in Persia have fingerprint
impressions. One government physician makes the observation that no two fingerprints were an
exact match.

1686 - At the University of Bologna in Italy, a professor of anatomy named Marcello Malpighi
notes the common characteristics of spirals, loops and ridges in fingerprints, using the newly
invented microscope for his studies. In time, a 1.88mm thick layer of skin, the Malpighi layer, was
named after him. Although Malpighi was likely the first to document types of fingerprints, the value
of fingerprints as identification tools was never mentioned in his writings.

1823 - A thesis is published by Johannes Evengelista Purkinje, professor of anatomy with the
University of Breslau, Prussia. The thesis details a full nine different fingerprint patterns. Still, like
Malpighi, no mention is made of fingerprints as an individual identification method.

1858 - The Chief Magistrate of the Hooghly district in Jungipoor, India, Sir William Herschel,
first used fingerprints to sign contracts with native Indians. In July of 1858, a local businessman
named Rajyadhar Konai put his hand print on the back of a contract at Herschels request.
Herschel was not motivated by the need to prove personal identity; rather, his motivation was to
simply frighten (Konai) out of all thought of repudiating his signature. As the locals felt more
bound to a contract through this personal contact than if it was just signed, as did the ancient
Babylonians and Chinese, Herschel adopted the practice permanently. Later, only the prints of the
right index and middle fingers were required on contracts. In time, after viewing a number of
fingerprints, Herschel noticed that no two prints were exactly alike, and he observed that even in
widespread use, the fingerprints could be used for personal identification purposes.

1880 - Dr. Henry Faulds, a British surgeon and Superintendent of Tsukiji Hospital in Tokyo,
published an article in the Scientific Journal, "Nautre" (nature). He discussed fingerprints as a
means of personal identification, and the use of printers ink as a method for obtaining such
fingerprints. Faulds had begun his study of what he called skin-furrows during the 1870s after
looking at fingerprints on pieces of old clay
pottery. He is also credited with the first fingerprint
identification: a greasy print left by a laboratory worker on
a bottle of alcohol. Soon, Faulds began to recognize that the
distinctive patterns on fingers held great promise as a means
of individual identification, and developed a classification
system for recording these inked impressions. Also in 1880,
Faulds sent a description of his fingerprint classification
system to Sir Charles Darwin. Darwin, aging and in poor health,
declined to assist Dr. Faulds in the further study of
fingerprints, but forwarded the information on to his cousin,
British scientist Sir Francis Galton.

1882 - Gilbert Thompson, employed by the U.S. Geological Survey

in New Mexico, uses his own fingerprints on a document to guard
against forgery. This event is the first known use of
fingerprints for identification in America.

1883 - Life on the Mississippi, a novel by Mark Twain, tells

the story of a murderer who is identified by the use of
fingerprints. His later book "Pudd'n Head Wilson includes a
courtroom drama involving fingerprint identification.

1888 - Sir Francis Galtons began his study of fingerprints

during the 1880s, primarily to develop a tool for determining
genetic history and hereditary traits. Through careful study of
the work of Faulds, which he learned of through his cousin Sir
Charles Darwin, as well as his examination of fingerprints
collected by Sir William Herschel, Galton became the first to
provide scientific evidence that no two fingerprints are
exactly the same, and that prints remain the same throughout
a persons lifetime. He calculated that the odds of finding
two identical fingerprints were 1 in 64 billion.

1892 - Galtons book Fingerprints is published, the first of

its kind. In the book, Galton detailed the first classification
system for fingerprints; he identified three types
(loop, whorl, and arch) of characteristics for fingerprints
(also known as minutia). These characteristics are to an extent
still in use today, often referred to as Galtons Details.

1892 - Juan Vucetich, an Argentine police official, had recently

begun keeping the first fingerprint files based on Galtons
Details. History was made that year when Vucetich made the
first criminal fingerprint identification. A woman named Rojas
had murdered her two sons, then cut her own throat to deflect
blame from herself. Rojas left a bloody print on a doorpost.
After investigators matched the crime scene print to that of
the accused, Rojas confessed. Vucetich eventually developed his
own system of classification, and published a book entitled
Dactiloscopa Comparada ("Comparative Fingerprinting") in 1904,
detailing the Vucetich system, still the most used system in
Latin America.

1896 - British official Sir Edward Richard Henry had been living
in Bengal, and was looking to use a system similar to that of
Herschels to eliminate problems within his jurisdiction. After
visiting Sir Francis Galton in England, Henry returned to Bengal
and instituted a fingerprinting program for all prisoners. By
July of 1896, Henry wrote in a report that the classification
limitations had not yet been addressed. A short time later,
Henry developed a system of his own, which included 1,024
primary classifications. Within a year, the Governor General
signed a resolution directing that fingerprinting was to be the
official method of identifying criminals in British India.

1901 - Back in England and Wales, the success of the Henry

Fingerprint Classification System in India was creating a stir,
and a committee was formed to review Scotland Yard's
identification methods. Henry was then transferred to England,
where he began training investigators to use the Henry
Classification System after founding Scotland Yard's Central
Fingerprint Bureau. Within a few years, the Henry Classification
System was in use around the world, and fingerprints had been
established as the uniform system of identification for the
future. The Henry Classification System is still in use today
in English speaking countries around the globe.

1902 - Alphonse Bertillon, director of the Bureau of

Identification of the Paris Police, is responsible for the first
criminal identification of a fingerprint without a known suspect.
A print taken from the scene of a homicide was compared against
the criminal fingerprints already on file, and a match was made,
marking another milestone in law enforcement technology.
Meanwhile, the New York Civil Service Commission, spearheaded
by Dr. Henry P. DeForrest, institutes testing of the first
systematic use of fingerprints in the United States.

1903 - Fingerprinting technology comes into widespread use in

the United States, as the New York Police Department, the New
York State Prison system and the Federal Bureau of Prisons begin
working with the new science.

1904 - The St. Louis Police Department and the Leavenworth State
Penitentiary in Kansas start utilizing fingerprinting, assisted
by a Sergeant from Scotland Yard who had been guarding the
British Display at the St. Louis Exposition.

1905 - The U.S. Army gets on the fingerprinting bandwagon, and

within three years was joined by the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps.
In the ensuing 25 years, as more law enforcement agencies
joined in using fingerprints as personal identification methods,
these agencies began sending copies of the fingerprint cards
to the recently established National Bureau of Criminal
Investigation.

1911 - The first central storage location for fingerprints in

North America is established in Ottawa by Edward Foster of the
Dominion Police Force. The repository is maintained by the Royal
Canadian Mounted Police, and while it originally held only 2000
sets of fingerprints, today the number is over 2 million.

1924 - The U.S. Congress acts to establish the Identification

Division of the F.B.I. The National Bureau and Leavenworth are
consolidated to form the basis of the F.B.I. fingerprint repository.
By 1946, the F.B.I. had processed 100 million fingerprint cards;
that number doubles by 1971.

1990s - AFIS, or Automated Fingerprint Identification Systems,

begin widespread use around the country. This computerized system
of storing and cross-referencing criminal fingerprint records
would eventually become capable of searching millions of
fingerprint files in minutes, revolutionizing law enforcement
efforts.

1996 - As Americans become more concerned with the growing missing

and abducted children problem, and law enforcement groups urge
the fingerprinting of children for investigative purposes in
the event of a child becoming missing, Chris Migliaro founds
Fingerprint America in Albany, NY. The company provides a simple,
at-home fingerprinting and identification kit for parents,
maintaining the familys privacy while protecting and educating
children about the dangers of abduction. By 2001, the company
distributes over 5 million Child ID Fingerprinting Kits around
the world.

1999 - The FBI phases out the use of paper fingerprint cards with
their new Integrated AFIS (IAFIS) site at Clarksburg, West Virginia.
 IAFIS will starts with individual computerized fingerprint records
for approximately 33 million criminals, while the outdated paper
cards for the civil files are kept at a facility in Fairmont,
West Virginia.

Typelines - 1. Two innermost ridges that start or go parallel

2. Diverge and surround or tend to surround the pattern
area

Types of Fingerprints
1. Visible Prints
2. Latent Prints
3. Impressed Prints

Visible Prints - also called patent prints and are left in

some medium, like blood, that reveals them to the naked eye
when blood, dirt, ink or grease on the finger come into
contact with a smooth surface and leave a friction ridge
impression that is visible without development.

Latent Prints - not apparent to the naked eye. They are

formed from the sweat from sebaceous glands on the body or
water, salt, amino acids and oils contained in sweat.
They can be made sufficiently visible by dusting, fuming or
chemical reagents.

Impressed prints - also called plastic prints and are

indentations left in soft pliable surfaces, such as clay,
wax, paint or another surface that will take the impression.
They are visible and can be viewed or photographed without
development.

Types of Patterns
1. Arch a. Plain Arch
b. Tented Arch
2. Loop a. Radial Loop
b. Ulnar Loop
3. Whorl a. Plain Whorl
b. Central Pocket Loop
c. Double Loop
d. Accidental Whorl

Plain Arch - 1. Ridges enter upon one side

2. Make a rise or wave in the center
3. Flow or tend to flow out upon the
opposite side.

Tented Arch - Possesses an 1. Angle

2. Upthrust
3. Two of The Three basic
characteristics of the loop

Ulnar loop - flow toward the little finger - ulna bone.

Radial Loop - flow toward the thumb - radius bone.

Plain Whorl - 1. Consists of one or more ridges which make or tend to make a
complete circuit
2. With 2 delta's
3. Between which, when an imaginary line is drawn, at least one recurving
ridge within the inner pattern area is cut or touched.

Central Pocket Loop - 1. Consists of at least one recurving

ridge or
2. An obstruction at right angles to
the line of flow
3. With 2 delta's
4. Between which, when an imaginary
line is drawn, no recurving ridge
within the inner pattern area is
cut or touched.

Double Loop - 1. Consists of two separate loop formations

2. With two separate and distinct set of
shoulders and
3. Two delta's

Accidental Whorl - 1. Consists of a combination of two

different types of patterns with the
exception of the plain arch
2. With 2 or more delta's or
3. A pattern which possesses some of the
requirements for 2 or more different
types or a pattern which conforms to
none of the definitions.