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21St Annual Training Seminar & & & JUNE / JULY / AUGUST 2012 ▪ Vol 27 Issue 3 theThe Official Publication of thePRINT Southern California Association of Fingerprint Officers An Association for Scientific Investigation and Identification Since 1937 21st Annual Training Seminar Ontario, California In DNA Era, Police Print Lab Still Crime-Solving Workhorse PAGE 4 &Thermal Latent Print Development PAGE 6 &APPLE In a Rush to Get Fingerprint Technology PAGE 9 &New Clue on How Brain Processes Visual PAGE 12 2 OFFICERS 2012 PRESIDENT Lisa Jackson Santa Monica Police Dept. (310) 458-8494 [email protected] FIRST VICE PRESIDENT Cynthia Fortier Los Angeles Sheriff’s Dept. (323) 260-8550 [email protected] Resources SECOND VICE PRESIDENT Mark Waldo “Every man owes a part of his time and money to the business Santa Ana Police Dept. (714) 245-8475 or industry in which he is engaged. No man has a moral right to [email protected] withohld his support from an organization that is striving to improve SECRETARY Amy Hines conditions within his sphere.” Riverside District Attorney’s Office (951) 304-5398 - President Theodore Rossevelt, 1908 [email protected] SERGEANT AT ARMS Tony Nguyen For subscription or membership information, or address corections contact: Pomona Police Dept. (909) 802-7418 [email protected] SCAFO Amy Hines, Secretary CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD Debbie Stivers 30755 Auld Road Glendale Police Dept. (Retired) 3rd Floor Rm, 3221 (661) 713-1344 [email protected] Murrieta, CA 92563 TREASURER [email protected] Cindee Lozano $30 yearly subscription (attendance required for membership) Fullerton Police Dept. (714) 738-3170 $35 yearly for International Subscriptions [email protected] DIRECTOR Sheri Orellana CSDIAI Russ Silcock, Secretary-Treasurer Pomona Police Dept. P.O. Box 10 (909) 620-3726 [email protected] Roseville, CA 95678-0010 DIRECTOR (916) 508-3518 Josie Mejia [email protected] Los Angeles Sheriff’s Dept. (562) 345-4461 $40 yearly membership [email protected] DIRECTOR Nicholas Burman IAI Glen Calhoun San Diego Police Dept. (619) 525-8481 2131 Hollywood Blvd. Suite 403 [email protected] Hollywood, FL 33020 DIRECTOR (954) 589-0628 Terri Beatty Los Angeles Sheriff’s Dept. theiai.org/membership (213) 989-2163 $70 yearly membership / $35.00 Students [email protected] PARLIAMENTARIAN Bob Goss San Bernardino Police Dept. ON THE COVER: (909) 388-4904 Unusual Print of polydactylism was submitted [email protected] by Leszek Jarzab, a Latent Print Examiner from HISTORIAN Poland William F. Leo Los Angeles Sheriff’s Dept. (Retired) (213) 898-2163 [email protected] EDITOR Tony Nguyen Pomona Police Dept. (909) 802-7418 [email protected] WEBMASTER Mari Johnson Los Angeles Sheriff’s Dept. (213) 989-2163 [email protected] WWW.SCAFO.ORG SCAFO - Mar | Apr | May 2012 - Vol 27 Issue 3 3 MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT Dear SCAFO Members, science as a whole. I highly recommend participating in this fun filled learning environment hosted by University The SCAFO Board has been working diligently on of Tennessee’s Anthropology Research Facility. its upcoming 21st Annual Training Seminar being held at the Hilton Ontario Airport Hotel, Friday, October 5th, While I had a great time networking with the 2012 and Saturday, October 6, 2012. We are pleased members at the San Diego meeting this past August 2012, to bring this year’s seminar back to the Ontario Hilton I am saddened to announce the “disappearance” of my Airport Hotel where are beloved gavel. It was taken members are treated like ever so suddenly while I briefly family. In keeping with our turned my back to handle logo of standardization, the important business of training & professionalism, guiding the members toward this year’s seminar boasts the delicious barbeque being an excellent line-up of served. I am pleased to speakers and vendors from announce that I kept my gavel various companies, who will safe for eight long months share the latest in forensic before the “kidnapping” was training, advances in perpetrated against me. While technology and innovation. I didn’t put out an APB like the Also in keeping with this prior SCAFO President did year’s 75th anniversary last year, I was encouraged celebration, we have a to complete a sore feelings roaring 20’s masquerade report instead! The tradition party planned for the social continued as I was quickly event on Friday evening handed a drinking glass and which includes prizes, fun spoon as my replacement and celebration. Come gavel. I must admit the one…come all and be drinking glass and spoon prepared to hear fantastic work reasonably well in a speaker presentations, visit pinch. For the kidnapper(s), our vendors, and dance to I have a message…my days the music our DJ all night have been long not knowing long! This will be a great the whereabouts of my dear opportunity to network with gavel, is she being taken care other members and non of properly, has she received - members from local law her monthly murphy’s oil rub enforcement agencies and down? The thought of her afar. Don’t forget to reserve your hotel room. The hotel being out there all along has been very difficult for me also offers an excellent breakfast buffet for free if you are this past month…however, vengeance will be mine! registered as a hotel guest. Finally, I look forward to meeting each of you Our August training was hosted by Junior Director, throughout the remainder of the year and hope to see you Nicholas Burman of San Diego Police Department at the at the upcoming SCAFO Seminar. great Phil’s Barbeque – Event Center in San Diego, Ca. The speaker, Heidi Herbert, Crime Scene Investigator Sincerely, with the San Diego Police Department presented a presentation on “2.5 Acres in Tennessee of Decomp Lisa Jackson in June”. The presentation was an introduction to the SCAFO President body farm and it benefits to the development of forensic SCAFO - Mar | Apr | May 2012 - Vol 27 Issue 3 4 IN DNA ERA, POLICE PRINT LAB STILL CRIME-SOLVING WORKHORSE By David Hench [email protected] (This article is reprinted from an article that appeared June 12, 2012 in The Portland Press Herald) containing the same complex and unique combination of whorls and loops. Even when there are no usable fingerprints, evidence technicians can sometimes lift enough of a palm print to get a match. Greater Portland’s Metropolitan Regional Crime Laboratory has in the past two and a half years linked fingerprints taken from 295 crime scenes -- called latent prints -- to prints collected by corrections officers at the Cumberland County Jail, identifying suspects and closing cases. In the 18 months since the jail began taking palm prints as part of its routine intake process, palm prints collected at crime scenes have been matched to offenders 65 times. Portland Police Department evidence technician Frank Pellerin examines a palm print on his computer monitor. The automated fingerprint/palm print identification Photos by John Ewing/Staff Photographer system consists of an extremely powerful desktop computer and a flatbed -- albeit state of the art -- scanner, Greater Portland’s metropolitan crime laboratory has in which cost $45,000 and $30,000, respectively. the past 2½ years linked fingerprints taken from 295 crime scenes to prints collected at the county jail, identifying “I think that by far it’s assisted us in solving more crimes suspects and closing cases. than any other piece of equipment we’ve been able to purchase,” said Assistant Chief Vern Malloch of the Last month, a Portland woman reported that a stranger Portland Police Department, where the regional crime lab broke into her High Street apartment and tried to rape her. is housed. She didn’t know him, and police had only a vague The lab’s success rate is so high that the manufacturer, description to work with, but within a few hours officers SPEX Forensics, is using it to market its products. identified the suspect, and tracked him to a West End apartment just two days after the attack. The key to the lab’s success has been its ability to electronically scan and compare prints quickly. Evidence technicians had retrieved a fingerprint from a foil condom wrapper, downloaded it into the regional When a person is booked into the county jail, corrections crime lab’s automated fingerprint identification system officers scan prints electronically, and those digital and matched it with Mohammed Mukhtar, an 18-year-old images are automatically compared with all latent prints who had been arrested -- and fingerprinted -- for allegedly in the database. driving without a license a month earlier. “It’s only a couple minutes, but you take a busy night with While the cutting-edge science of DNA analysis gets a lot 15 or 16 people coming in and half of them intoxicated, of the glory in forensics, fingerprints -- and increasingly, it can be difficult. But the payback has been pretty palm prints -- remain a workhorse of crime scene good,” said Cumberland County Sheriff Kevin Joyce, who investigation. oversees the jail and whose law enforcement division participates in the regional lab. The palm is in many ways like a giant fingerprint, SCAFO - Mar | Apr | May 2012 - Vol 27 Issue 3 5 IN DNA ERA, POLICE PRINT LAB STILL CRIME-SOLVING WORKHORSE The jail has long served as a repository of information about Malloch said directors of the regional lab understood offenders, including vital statistics, identifying marks and when purchasing its system that it wouldn’t be able to mug shots. It makes sense to collect electronic fingerprint communicate with the state. But the system was more information from all offenders the jail processes, even if affordable and better met the needs of departments their infractions are minor, Joyce said.
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