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DIAGRAMS are use
quite frequently for locating people,
or figuring. positions of objects. Constable Robert Kerr is
working at the drafting table on a scale drawing.
Don't even think of committing a
,crime, because if you do your chances
of being caught are mighty high.
Number six detachment headquar-
ters of the OPP, have three very quali-
fied men who' work in a fully•equipped
Identification Section. Identification
Sergeant Murray Peer/ Constable Rob-
ert Kerr and Constable Fred Tucker
have all sorts of little tricks up their
sleeves to connect you with the crime
you have committed.
It might be anything from a break-
in, a motor vehicle accident, a homo-
cide to a suicide, and these three men
are working hard to find the criminal
or the missing persons.
They have various" methods of
identifying the. people involved. The
one method used most often, if pos-
sible, is fingerprint identification.
Let us suppose you have commit-
ted a crime. You broke into a store, you
killed the owner, took money and mer-
chandise and left the scene in your car.
The officer investigating the crime
looks around the area of the crime to
see if -he can spot anything which might
lead to clues as to who did it. Then In-
vestigat on Sergeant Peer, and Con-
stables Kerr and Tucker.arrive. They
•first take a photograph of the area
which contains fingerprints. This area
is then dusted with powder of a con-
trasting color which exposes the
fingerprint. It is then picked up on tape
and placed on white plastic backing.
tape.
The fingerprint is brought back to
their identification lab and enlarged
through photographs. They attempt to
match the fingerprints with their own
criminal file. If the prints match you
are suspected °of the crime and the of-
ficer in charge questions you.
If they do not have your finger-
prints. on file in Mounf Forest, they
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make photo copies and, send these cut
to the investigation lab in Toronto and
to the RCMP.
Once they have identified your
fingerprints on file with those found at
the scene, the Identification Sergeant
Murray Peer is called to court to ex-
plain the chart he will have made up
showing the comparison of fingerprints
found at the scene and those o, n file.
The Identification Sergeant is one
of the few OPP personell who can give
expert evidence in court. The chart
consists df a large blow-up of the
fingerprint found, and a large blow-up
of the fingerprint on file. Sgt. Peer ex-
plains the comparison through the use
of specific markings on your finger.
These markings are universally known
as biforcations, ridge endings, lakes
and islands.
Now you may say to yourself that
none of the police departments in Can-
ada have a copy of your fingerprints
because this is your first crime. Well
there are other methods of connecting
you with the crime.
It was a muddy day, and you left •
foot impressions and tire impressions
in the mud. Plaster- casts of these im-
pressions will be taken, and later used
to add to the evidence the officer may
already have on you. They will be com- •
pared with your car's tires, and your
footprints.
Maybe a piece of fibre glass •or
paint left on the road was found and
then matched with your car. Or maybe
as in an actual case which happened,.
pieces of your broken mirro ;were
found and the parts were matched with
your car. n
How about that money you tdok?
Did you make the same mistake that a
real criminal made? This person took
money from a cash box. In his haste the,
lid , of the cash„ box fell down on the
TAKING FINGERPRINTS— Indentification Sergeant
Murray Peer is removing fingerprints. The.area has been
dusted with the contrasting colored powder and will be re-
moved by tape, ready to be placed on the paper for filing.
KEEPING RECORDS for filing is a most important lob.
Identification Sergeant Murray Peer is typing records for
filing. A record is kept on every person who has been in con-
tact with the OPP identification section.
USING THE IDENTIKIT— ° Investigation Sergeant Murray Peer and a witness
are developing a likeness of a suspect with the identikit: Once the likeness has
been created it may be published in order to find the person more rapidly.
OBSERVING A FINGERPRINT—Constable' Fred Tucker is using a magnifying
glass to sfYly the fingerprints of a suspect. He is carefully noting all the distinc
tive marks in each print.
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FINGERPRINT FILING --Constable Fred Tucker is looking at a fingerprint file.
A vast number of prints are kept on file in the Identification Section of OPP Head-
quarters.
money as he pulled it out and a corner
from a ten dollar bill was found at the
scene. He later spent that same ten
dollar bill, and the store keeper who
was watching for' the money notified
the police, and the criminal was
caught. The corner which was torn off
matched the ten dollar bill exactly.
Or maybe, as happened in another
actual crime which, happened at a se-
ries of -cottage break' -ins, the claw from
a hammer was found and retained.
Later the suspeect's car was searched,
and the hammer with the missing claw
was found. It was compared and found
to be identical:
The men in the identification de-
• partment take photographs of the two
„separate parts. and blow them up many
,'.. times their. actual size_. The' pictures
can then be matched to compare var-
ious
arious scratch marks and blemishes.
The men in the investigation de-
partment require special training in
photographical techniques; fingerprint
comparison. and scale drawing (of
areas where -a crime has been commit-
ted) in order to better 'assist them in
'court.
' The Identification section in Moun• t
Forest has its own dark room. There
are 16 cameras throughout No. 6. dis-
trict. All of the processing, except color
are done there. Color is sent to Toronto.
They do about 3,000 eight -by -tens in a ,
year and 6,000 four -by -fives.
The identification squad uses a
crown graphic -press camera which
takes large scale photographs.
Back to your crime. The OPP have
all the evidence they need to suspect
you have committed the crime. Any of
the stolen merchandise, which has
been found, or articles you left at the
scene are now tightly -seabed in plastic
bags waiting to be used as evidence in
court. Even the bullet wounds your vic-
tim received may have been cut out
and are being preserved in a jar, also
any samples of blood which they might
find useful.
The identification men in Mount.
Forest have done more interesting in-
�d
vestigations than break-ins and. homo-
cides.
At the time of the aircraft disaster
in Toronto, they went to help identify
and sort out the per�onal effects.
Twenty people were identified through
fingerprints, the rest through dental
charts.
If a person has been dead for So
long that fingerprints cannot be taken,
they cut the skin off the fingers and
'soak it in lactic acid. This softens it
enough to take- the print.
The Toronto aircraft disaster was
the most successful in the identification
of victims of any other aircraft dis-
aster.
They also went to the crash in St.'
Therese, Quebec where 30 to 40 bodies
.wereaauried by the cra§h. Unfortunate-
ly they didn't meet with the same suc-
cess in their identification. • ,
Sometimes, but not very often the
Identikit is used. This kit is made up of
a series of facial features drawn on
transparencies. With the use of the kit a
likeness' of. the suspect can be 'de-
veloped by building the facial features
most like the person, one on top of the
other,. until the picture resembles him.
First the ears and chin line are "yes
tablished, then age lines are added.
Next the nose is added, then the mouth
which is most like the suspect's, the
eyebrow and then the hair. All of these
transparencies are coded so they may
be transmitted over the telex to anyone
who has the kit so they can build their
own likeness° of the criminal. to be
found.
This kit is better than using a police
artist because they are standardized.
The Mount Forest identification,
department is administered separately
from the local detachments.- It covers
the counties of Bruce, Grey, Welling-
ton, Waterloo, Perth and Huron.
Identificatioh Sergeant Murray
Peer, Constable Robert Kerr and Con -
f stable Fred Tucker are all kept very
busy covering their large area, es-
pecially in the summer since it is the
busiest time of the year.
THE DARK ROOM is used very extensively by the men in the identification sec-
t tion. Constable Robert Kerr is examining a photograph for clues. Objects can be
matched by blowing up each print taken. The photographs also serve as evidence
in court for fingerprint identification,