UNIVERSITY OF SAINT ANTHONY

(Dr. Santiago G. Ortega Memorial)

City of Iriga

College of Criminal Justice Education

Name: Kelly Warner L. Conde Subject: Forensic 2

MIDTERM TOPICS

*FINGERPRINT LABORATORY EQUIPMENT*

*1 INK ROLLER*

Refers to an instrument used for spreading the ink into the slab or inking plate.

*2 INK SLAB/INKING PLATE*

Refers to a piece of metal or a place glass with as much as ¼ thick and 6 or more
inches long when the fingerprint ink is distributed for fingerprinting.

*3 CARD HOLDER*

Refers to gadget used for slipping the fingerprint card to avoid movement of the
card during printing.

*4 FINGERPRINT INK*

Refers to a especially manufactured ink for purposes of taking fingerprint

*5 MAGNIFYING GLASS*

Refers to an instrument used for examination of developed prints.

*6 FINGERPRINT POWDER*

Refers to the powder used in developing latent prints found in the scene of crime.
They are normally found in two: the black and the white or gray which is applied
depending upon the contrasting background.

*7 FINGERPRINT BRUSHES*

Refers to an instrument used for powdering latent prints. There are three variations
of brushes used: the fiber glass, magnetic and feather types.

*8 FINGERPRINT LIFTING TAPE*

Refers to a tapes used for lifting develop latent prints which id quite harder than an
ordinary tape.

*9 LATENT PRINTS TRANSFER CARDS*

Refers to a card used in preserving lifted latent prints which is either whiter or
black in background.

*10 FINGERPRINT CARDS*

Refers to a piece of card used for recording the ten fingerprint for comparison. The
usual size is “8X8”.
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(Dr. Santiago G. Ortega Memorial)
City of Iriga

College of Criminal Justice Education

*11 SCISSORS*

Refers to a simple instrument for cutting latent print tapes and for other purposes.

*12 RUBBER GLOVES*

To protect the technician’s fingers from leaving his own prints on the object or on
the scene

*13 POST-MORTEM FINGERPRINT EQUIPMENT*

Refers to a set of equipment consisting id hypodermis syringe, spoon, tissue

builder solvent, tissue cleaner, etc used for taking prints of dead person.

*14 FINGERPRINT TABLE*

A table intended for taking fingerprints

*15 FINGERPRINT POINTERS*

Use for pointing the ridges in the conduct of the ridge counting.

*16 FINGERPRINT CAMERAS*

Use in photography developed latent prints.

*17 FORENSIC OPTICAL COMPARATOR*

Used to compare fingerprints at the same time

*18 FINGERPRINT TABLE*

A table intended for taking fingerprint

*RIDGES CHARACTERISTICS (ALSO KNOWN AS MINUTIAE)*

- Details of ridge structures formations and elements which differentiate from one
fingerprint from another and which import individuality to each print.

*1 BIFUCATION*

A single ridge that divides itself In two of more branches. It sometimes called as
fork

*2 CONVERGING RIDGE*

A ridge formation characterized by a closed angular end and serves as a point of

convergence (meeting of the ridges that were previously running side by side).

*3 DIVERGING RIDGES*

Two ridges that are flowing side to side and suddenly separating or spreading
apart.
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(Dr. Santiago G. Ortega Memorial)
City of Iriga

College of Criminal Justice Education

*4 ENCLOSURE (LAKE OR EYELET)*

A ridge that divides into two branches and meets to form the original ridge.

*5 ENDING RIDGE*

An end point of a ridge with abrupt ending

*6 RUCURVING OR LOOPING RIDGE*

A kind of ridge formation that curves back in the direction from which it stored.

*7 SUFFICIENT RECURVE*

A recurving ridge complete in it shoulder and is free from any appendage.

*8 APPENDAGE*

A short ridge found inside the inner most recurving ridge.

*9 ROD OR BAR*

A short or long ridge found inside the innermost recurving ridge of a loop pattern.

*10 OBSTRACTION RIDGE*

Short ridge found inside the innermost recurving ridge that spoiled the inner flow
towards the center of the pattern.

*11 FRAGMENTARY RIDGE*

A ridge of extremely short length

*12 DOT RIDGE*

Ridge formed like dots

*FOCAL POINTS*

-Are enclosed within the pattern area

*PATTERN AREA*

-Is that part of a loop or a whorl in which appear the core

*CORE*

-The inner terminus or the approximate center of a fingerprint pattern.

*DELTA*

-The outer terminus or that point in a ridge at front of a nearest the center of the
divergence of the typelines.
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(Dr. Santiago G. Ortega Memorial)
City of Iriga

College of Criminal Justice Education

*6 DELTA FORMATION*

1. A bifurcation ridge
2. A dot
3. An ending ridge
4. A short ridge
5. A converging ridge
6. A point and long ridge

*ADDITIONAL COMPARISON POINTS*

*CREASE*

-Usually run longitudinally along the length of the finger.

*FLEXURE LINE*

-A permanent crease in the skin at the knuckles which dermis the skin to flex
when finger is extended.

*CAUSE OF RIDGE DESTRUCTION*

 Personal doing manual work- finger print of the person who handle line.
 Diseased person
 Warts
 Crease- caused by a folding of the skin
 Impression appear as while line crossing the ridge
 Scar- result of a cut
 Burn

*RIDGE CHARACTERISTICS DRAWINGS*

SUFFICIENT
LOOPING RIDGE
RECORD
BIFURCATION

TRIFURCATION

DOUBLE OBSTRUCTURE
BIFUCATION RIDGE

OPPOSED BIFURCATION
SHORT RIDGE
OR ISLAND

CONVERGING

BRIDGE