
The officer called me to come in to answer some questions. The print was on the outside of a car so I imagine environment can play a drastic role in dating. I've read the FAQ regarding dating but not sure if it applies to my problem. officer told me that this doesn't matter and that he dusted and he could date the print to within a week based on freshness of the print. This car was my ex-boyfriends who let me borrow it from time to time, so yes my prints would be over it. I had an officer tell me that my prints were on the outside of a car near where a vandal performed some damage. Circumstantial evidence such as information that an item was cleaned thoroughly with glass cleaner, soap and water, etc., could date latent prints on the item as not being older than the last thorough cleaning. Unless scientific analysis of latent print residue on evidence was completed before processing with powder or chemicals to visualize latent prints (which is an analysis seldom performed because latent prints tend to be invisible until processed), then the nature of the latent print residue deposited by the fingers or palms cannot be known (whether it was fried chicken oil, grease, natural secretions from the fingers, etc.). Latent prints that develop "quickly, strongly or dark" are not necessarily consistent with having been "recently" deposited. please read below.Ĭan a Fingerprint Expert determine if latent prints are "fresh" versus old? Estimates about the age of latent prints are unreliable when the experts guessing have no idea what was on the fingers that touched a surface. Posted From: Ĭan you tell me if the police can tell the difference between an old fingerprint from about two months ago and a fingerprint that was taken three days after it touched the surface. How long do the police take to identify fingerprints? The police collected fingerprints but no arrest has taken place so far. My house was broken into four months ago. Substance, this rubber bag with my fingerprints is in dusty place.Īll i what to know is, will stay forever fingerprints in substance i touched or will be lost, if yes for how long ? Hello, I would like to know how long fingerprints will least in rubber bag ? Please see an answer to the above question in the FAQs here here I make a police report but the police say that the finger print had over 2 years, means from 1-1-2017 cannot be on the paper How long a finger print last in a regular paper?

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