Module 4: Fingerprint Analysis

Question 1

Sino si Alphonse Bertillon?

Answer 1

Portrait parle: Bertillion system - 11 anthropometric measurements

Question 2

Already used during qin dinasty

Answer 2

Fingerprints, 221-206 BC

Question 3

History of Fingerprinting

Answer 3

• William Herschel: English in india, whole right hand
• Henry Faulds: Scottish, potential application of fingerprinting for personal identification
• Francis Galton: English, /Fingerprints/(1892), three pattern typess, pattern remain unchanged
• Sir Edward Richard Henry: Henry system

Question 4

Fundamental Principles of Fingerprinting

Answer 4

1. Fingerprint is an individual characteristic
   
   • ridge characteristics and comparison (point-by-point)
2. ” “ remaines unchanged
   
   • dermal papillae, changed when injured or have disease
3. ” “ have general ridge patterns

Question 5

Primary Classification

Answer 5

• 16, 8, 4, 2,1
• 1024 possible outcomes
• plus in numerator and denominator
• remember hand position

Question 6

Automated Fingerprint Identification System

Answer 6

• Use of computers

Question 7

Three kinds of crime-scene prints

Answer 7

• Visible prints: colored
• Plastic prints: soft materials
• Latent/ invisible prints: transfer to surface

Question 8

2 Filipinos train fingerprint analysis

Answer 8

• Flaviano Guerrero
• Thomas Dugan

Question 9

Fingerprints of both hands

Answer 9

RA 0036, sec. 13 “ Census act of 1940”

Question 10

Chop-chop lady

Answer 10

Lucila Lalu