Question: Your assignment this week is to analyze a fingerprint as if you were a Latent Print Examiner. Click on Project 2 below and a fingerprint will appear.
Project 2 image
- Identify characteristics in the print such as pattern type, pores, Galton characteristics, scars, incipient ridges, and ridge shapes. Mark and label these characteristics carefully.
- The assignment can be completed by either marking the print in Microsoft word by using arrows and text box tools or scan the labeled print as a jpg file and download in the project under assignments.
- There is no written assignment. All identifying features are to be labeled on the fingerprint image as you would label and exhibit for court.
Here's an example.