What is AFIS?
Published February 8, 2018 “AFIS”, I’m sure you’ve all seen it at some point. “AFIS came back negative” or “AFIS matched latent R1 to…” or even, “AFIS reports a possible identification to…”, but what is AFIS? From the way [...]
Should police colleges provide friction ridge analysis training?
Published January 24, 2019 It’s been almost two years since I opened my business, and in that time, I’ve helped several people with their cases. Interestingly, I’ve never seen the same issue twice. Each case had flaws that mitigated [...]
A guide to Friction Ridge Analysis Reports
Published May 14, 2019 In Canada, friction ridge analysis reports are now commonplace when dealing with fingerprint, palm print and footprint evidence. They were born from a need to provide information to satisfy the requirement of providing, either a [...]
It’s time for a fingerprint revolution!
Published August 11, 2017 Here in 2017 you’d think the last thing we’d be talking about is a revolution in forensic biometrics. But I believe that is exactly what is needed. For the best part of three decades we [...]