New Fingerprint Technology Will Solve More Crime

Imagine what law enforcement agencies would be able to do if they could still lift a fingerprint from a gun even if the prints have been totally wiped off. An English physicist named John Bond has developed a technique for doing just that. It seems that even after a fingerprint has been wiped off of a surface there is still some residual matter left behind and Mr. Bond had developed a way to uncover it. His method involves the use of an electrical charge which when combined with a fine carbon powder will reveal that residual matter on a surface and in many cases the entire fingerprint can be clearly revealed. This new discovery will open up a wealth of possibilities for police and other investigators because it will allow them not only to solve crimes that are taking place in the present but also to go back into their files and open up some of their cold cases and solve crimes that have not been able to be solved up until now with this new crime fighting tool. The technology is less than 6 months old and already it has begun to help in doing exactly that.