Crime Laboratory Observation

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On Monday, November 9th, 2015 I visited the City of Bridgeport Police Department in West Virginia. Debra Ayers, that works with the United States Department of Justice, Federal Bureau of Investigation was generous enough to donate her time and accommodate my needs at the Bridgeport Police Department. In addition, she was very patient and took plenty of time out of her day to demonstrate and teach me and another student in your class. Ayers donated two and a half hours completing our fingerprints, palm-prints, and answered every question that I had for her. Furthermore, she even donated two Fingerprint Training Manuals to further help us learn about fingerprints. Although, Ayers was very helpful, unfortunately we could not visit a crime lab, our nearest crime lab is around two hours away in Charleston, West Virginia.
To begin with, it was very important for the individual to wash their hands when possible to insure that oils and dirt has been eliminated, therefore the fingerprints and palm-prints go onto a 10 print card clearly. There are different types of ink used to complete an individuals fingerprints and palm-prints. For example, there is black printer ink, a porelon pad, and a chemical method (Digit 10). Correspondingly, the Digit 10 method is a red porelon pad ink that
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First, a Criminal 10 print card is pink and numbered FD-249. Second, a Personal 10 print card is green and numbered FD-353. Third, an Applicant card is a blue civil card numbered FD-258, which are used for adoptions or employment working with children. Similarly, there is a pink palm-print card and a pink finger-tip print card, that have their own individual FD numbers. The pink palm-print card is numbered FD-884 and the pink finger-tip print card is numbered FD-884a. Furthermore, the FD number is used for ordering purposes to insure that each specific card is ordered correctly by each individual number