Recommendation FP77: Recommendation 77
From The Fingerprint Inquiry Report, published 14 December 2011.
Recommendation
A system should be devised whereby any authorisation of fingerprint examiners under section 280 would be confined to the authorisation of individuals who are employed by an institution which has achieved appropriate accreditation. It would be for the Scottish Government to satisfy itself in the course of the review referred to in recommendation 76 as to what constitutes appropriate accreditation, and by whom that accreditation should be carried out.
Government response
No government response to this recommendation is on the record yet.
Blanket government agreement does not establish acceptance or delivery by each addressee. Some response passages cover groups of recommendations.
Scope of the government response
The Scottish Government's news release of 14 December 2011, the day the report was published, is its only published statement on the recommendations. Its one sentence about them is given for all of them together and states no position. The Scottish Police Services Authority's release of the same day accepts "all of the recommendations made of it by the Inquiry" without listing them; the site records that on the recommendations addressed to its forensic service. The Authority no longer exists, and the site files its words under the Scottish Police Authority, which took over its forensic services in 2013.
Delivery
No statement on delivery from the addressee has been found in the sources searched (last checked 18 June 2026). This is separate from the response above.