Chapter 21: The SCRO Fingerprint Bureau and training of fingerprint examiners
Introduction
The Scottish Criminal Record Office
Staff training and development
Trainee examiners
Training and development of qualified fingerprint examiners
The monitoring of examiner competence
Workload and working conditions
Chapter 22: Procedures of SCRO in 1997
Introduction
Results of examination of marks
Fragmentary and insufficient
Identification
Elimination
Negative
Volume crime cases and special cases
Working arrangements
The receipt of marks
The receipt of prints
The examiners' process in brief
Prioritisation
'Phoning out' results to police during the investigation
Diary pages
The recording of results
Case envelopes
End of case letter
Written Procedures in 1997
Chapter 23: The substantive work of SCRO examiners
Introduction
General methodology
Initial analysis of the mark
Comparison of mark with prints - the technique used
The comparator machine
Notes
Photographic enlargements
ACE-V
Verification
Resolving disagreements about an identification
Criticisms made of practice in 1997
"Teasing out" points
Peer pressure