Fingerprint Development & Recovery Workshop
For the Crime Scene Investigator
3 Day Workshop

"When I was a youth, I knew an old Frenchman who had been a prisonkeeper for thirty years, and he told me that there was one thing about a person which never changed from the cradle to the grave - the lines in the ball of the thumb: and he said that these lines were never exactly alike in the thumbs of any two human beings."

Mark Twain Life on the Mississippi - 1883

Workshop Summary

This is an intermediate level workshop designed to increase the effectiveness of the crime scene examiner in locating, documenting and recovering latent print evidence.  Topics addressed include the history and physiology of fingerprints, scene examination techniques and documentation and recovery procedures.

The student will work with a variety of processing methods to develop their skills in recovering prints from run of the mill as well as unusual surfaces.   Photography exercises provide the student with an excellent opportunity to sharpen their photographic skills.

Required Equipment

Attendees will need to bring a camera (35mm or digital SLR)), tripod and off-camera flash.

For more information call Imprimus Forensic Services, LLC at 847.804.8420 or e-mail us at IFS@Imprimus.net.

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