Basic Latent Fingerprint Comparison Class
COVID-19 Safety while at Sirche
We're commited to providing a safe learning environment for students during these challenging times. To ensure your safety, Sirchie will conduct daily COVID screenings on each class participant, provide masks & hand sanitizer, and practice safe distancing.
You need to attend this program if...
- You are a latent print AFIS operator desiring to improve your latent print comparison skills.
- You are a beginning latent print examiner seeking formal training in latent print comparison and identification.
- You would like to receive training with case work quality latent prints for a real-life comparison experience
- You would like to learn valuable latent print comparison techniques to enhance your skills.
This course has been approved for Certification Training credit by the IAI
IAI Latent Print Certification Credit: 36 hours
Curriculum
- The ACE-V methodology of fingerprint comparison and identification & its relationship to scientific method
- Level 1, level 2, and level 3 detail in latent print comparisons
- Latent print orientation and comparison search clues
- Fingerprint pattern interpretation and their uses in the comparison of latent fingerprints
- Palm print orientation and palm print search clues in latent print comparisons
- Daubert and post Brandon Mayfield issues
Your Instructor
Johnny Leonard is a retired Deputy Director of the City‐County Bureau of Identification in Raleigh, NC and is both an I.A.I. Certified Latent Print Examiner and Footwear Examiner. He has also worked for the FBI and the NC State Bureau of Investigation. He has been a latent fingerprint examiner for the past 38 years and has over 49 years of fingerprint experience. During the past 42 years he has instructed over 200 classes and trained more than 2500 students in the science of fingerprints.