Current Methods Used by the Forensic Science Service of the Israel Police for Processing Human Prints at the Scenes of Serious Crime

Abstract

The paper presents an overview of the work typically performed at the crime scene by specialists of the Forensic Science Service of the Israel Police. It describes the standard crime scene algorithm and modern methods of shoeprint, fingerprint, and bare footprint detection using the example of a hypothetical generic crime — the murder of a urban apartment owner in the course of a burglary.

Keywords

• israel police
• fingerprint analysis
• detection of human trace evidence
• crime scene investigation