- 2007
- Fingerprint services in Scotland become part of SPSA Forensic Services.
- 2006
- The Action Plan for Excellence was published.
- 2005
- Plans for a new national Scottish Forensic Science Service were announced.
- 2004
- Scotland became a permanent part of IDENT1.
- 2001
- The Scottish Fingerprint Service was created.
- 1997
- 1992
- National Training Centre is established.
- 1991
- Automatic Fingerprint Recognition (AFR) system was introduced.
- 1983 DAVID R. ASHBAUGH
- 1976 MICHIO OKAJIMA
- Researched subsidiary/incipient ridges
- 1975
- The amalgamation of Scotland's eight police forces.
- 1970
- 1962 SALIL CHATTERJEE
- Envisioned using the shapes of the ridge edges as characteristics
- 1960
- The Scottish Criminal Record Office was created.
- 1952 ALFRED HALE
- Explained fully how the formation and development of friction ridges occur.
- 1952
- Conviction based on a toe print.
- 1942
- Bertie Hammond retired.
- 1934
- The Glasgow Bureau expands to become a training centre.
- 1931 HAROLD CUMMINS
- First fingerprint and photographic department in Scotland established.
- 1929 HAROLD CUMMINS
- Researched formation and development of volar pads and their effect on friction ridge pattern formation
- 1918 HARRIS HAWTHORNE WILDER
- Volar pad/friction ridge development of volar pads and their effect on friction ridge pattern formation.
- 1912 EDMOND LOCARD
- Presented evidence of identification in Court using poroscopy.
- 1904 INEZ WHIPPLE
- Friction ridge formation during foetal growth
- 1902
- First fingerprint evidence in England
- 1900 SIR EDWARD HENRY
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Devised fingerprint classification system
- 1892 JUAN VUCETICH
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1st Fingerprint Bureau and fingerprint identification
- 1888 SIR FRANCIS GALTON
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- 1880 DR HENRY FAULDS
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Alluded to the hereditary nature of patterns
- 1870 ALPHONSE BERTILLON
- 1856 SIR WILLIAM HERSCHEL
- 1788 J.C.A MAYER
- Published a book which looked at patterns and friction ridge skin
- 1787-1869 JOHN E. PURKINJE
- Published a thesis on fingerpint patterns.
- 1641-1712 NEHEMIAH GREW
- Researched the patterns of the fingers and palms, sweat pores and the epidermal ridges and their arrangements.
- 1628-1694 MARCELLO MALPIGHI
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Researched the existence of ridges, spirals and loops in fingerprints.