PMID- 15745267
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20050406
LR  - 20170214
IS  - 0025-8024 (Print)
IS  - 0025-8024 (Linking)
VI  - 45
IP  - 1
DP  - 2005 Jan
TI  - Fingerprint evidence in England and Wales--the revised standard.
PG  - 1-6
AB  - Evidence of personal identity, often based solely on the comparison of a single 
      finger impression, or fragment of an impression, has been accepted by courts of 
      law at all levels in England and Wales since 1901, when the fingerprint system of 
      identification was first adopted by police forces. Fingerprint identification is 
      used by police forces world-wide, not only for the identification of latent 
      fingermarks left at crime scenes, but also as the basis for ensuring accuracy in 
      the criminal record system. For more than a century fingerprint evidence has been 
      shown without doubt to be the best form of personal identification yet devised 
      and millions of comparisons and subsequent identifications have been effected 
      world-wide without any flaw in the system having been detected. From 1953-2001 it 
      was the usual practice in England and Wales for the police to proffer fingerprint 
      evidence showing 16 common matching characteristics, or features in agreement, 
      between the two impressions being compared. In 1996 the Association of Chief 
      Police Officers (ACPO) commissioned a review of the existing methods of 
      presenting fingerprint evidence before the courts and on 11 June 2001 a new 
      standard of fingerprint evidence was adopted by the police forces of England and 
      Wales. This paper describes how the new standard was developed and implemented 
      and why it was considered necessary to move away from the existing 16-point 
      standard.
FAU - Leadbetter, Martin J
AU  - Leadbetter MJ
AD  - Fingerprint Bureau, Cambridgeshire Constabulary Headquarters, Hinchingbrooke 
      Park, Huntingdon, Cambs PE29 6NP. Martin.leadbetter@cambs.pnn.police.uk
LA  - eng
PT  - Historical Article
PT  - Journal Article
PL  - England
TA  - Med Sci Law
JT  - Medicine, science, and the law
JID - 0400721
SB  - IM
MH  - Criminal Law/history
MH  - Dermatoglyphics/*history
MH  - England
MH  - History, 19th Century
MH  - History, 20th Century
MH  - History, 21st Century
MH  - Humans
MH  - Wales
EDAT- 2005/03/05 09:00
MHDA- 2005/04/07 09:00
CRDT- 2005/03/05 09:00
PHST- 2005/03/05 09:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2005/04/07 09:00 [medline]
PHST- 2005/03/05 09:00 [entrez]
AID - 10.1258/rsmmsl.45.1.1 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Med Sci Law. 2005 Jan;45(1):1-6. doi: 10.1258/rsmmsl.45.1.1.