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Expert Support for Scotland's Police and Criminal Justice community

• SCENE EXAMINATION
• CHEMISTRY
  • Paint
  • Glass
  • Footwear
  • Tool Marks
  • Tyres
• BIOLOGY
• DNA
• DRUGS
  • Types of Drugs
• SPECIALIST SERVICES
  • Documents and Handwriting
  • Ballistics
  • Firearms Residue
  • Toxicology
• FINGERPRINTS
  • Development of Fingerprints
  • Ridges
  • Patterns
  • Identifying a Print
    • Analyse
    • Further Analysis
    • Compare
    • Evaluate and Verify
  • What We Do and How it Works
• CASE STUDIES
  • Identification by a toe print
  • Identification by a Sole Print
• HISTORY BEHIND THE SCIENCE
  • History of Fingerprints

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