INTRODUCTION
At a crime scene, most of the information
(evidence) can be used to provide information for
evaluating what did or could not have happened and
involving whom.
Fingerprints are a type of evidence that are
often found at crime. Unique characteristics, and the
unchanged friction ridge of each individual’s skin
over their life renders the ability to use fingerprints to
identify the individual concerned.
There are two general types of fingerprint
evidence that can be found at the crime scene or on
objects related to it that is the visible and the latent
fingerprint, but they are not mutually exclusive. This
study is mainly concerned with latent prints.