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Post by hannikan on Jan 7, 2013 23:32:57 GMT
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Post by zagg on Jan 23, 2013 20:57:12 GMT
That is actually really cool. Thanks for the link!
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Post by Lucy on Jan 28, 2013 17:31:27 GMT
It's so good to see that an actual police officer approves of this show  I have to admit I'm the same when it comes to moaning about crime shows because I'm a trained forensic scientist! |
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Post by nanciq on Apr 8, 2013 16:38:36 GMT
I discovered something interesting last week when I was doing research for something. According the Toronto Police website, fingerprinting was not used until the 1908, yet William has been using it since the 1890s. Wondered how the people researching the show missed that? Maybe they got around it by calling it finger marks. LOL Nanci |
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Post by hannikan on Apr 12, 2013 8:17:39 GMT
Well, he is supposed to be ahead of his time. So the constabulary as a whole didn't use it yet (none of the other detective/police at any of the other stations do). They all think he's nuts to do so.
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Post by wilbour on Mar 13, 2018 2:31:26 GMT
I discovered something interesting last week when I was doing research for something. According the Toronto Police website, fingerprinting was not used until the 1908, yet William has been using it since the 1890s. Wondered how the people researching the show missed that? Maybe they got around it by calling it finger marks. LOL Nanci Well they are not far off from the truth. In Canada the RCMP began recording fingerprints of criminals and maintaining a searchable database for reference in 1911 I believe. However, in the late 1800's it was used to identify if someone could have touched something by comparison. Searching for one's previous identify by fingerprints alone required a complicated means of catagorising a set of inked fingerprints which was developed in part by Edward Foster. This developed into the Fingerprint Bureau of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. Each person fingerprinted was assigned a Fingerprint Section Number (FPS) and that number was and to this day is never reused. We actually have a copy of FPS #1 hanging on our foyer wall. The system of classification was so efficient that it went virtually unchanged for 70 years. |
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