Watchdogs have criticised Police Scotland for using traditional ink and paper for taking fingerprints at some of its stations due to a lack of electronic scanners. The technique, which in UK policing ...

Identity recognition is probably the least important function our fingerprints might serve for us. Here’s how and why they evolved in the first place.

Taking fingerprints is about to get a lot easier for the East Moline Police Department. According to Chief Victor Moreno and Capt. Bill DeVrieze, the department received a $27,226 grant from the ...

Using fingerprints as a form of identification has been used since the reign of Hammurabi in ancient Babylon. Nearly 4,000 years later, fingerprints are still a vital form of identity authentication, ...