Public Inquiry Recommendations
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What these recommendations are about — Fingerprint Inquiry
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Police investigation management ·
Corporate data issues ·
Quality and safety oversight ·
Staff training and development ·
Clinical negligence harms learning
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Report published 2011 — 86 recommendations across this inquiry.
FP3
Accepted
Fingerprint Inquiry
(2011)
Discontinue certainty claims
Examiners should discontinue reporting conclusions on identification or exclusion with a claim to 100% certainty or on any other basis suggesting that fingerprint evidence is infallible.
FP5
Accepted
Fingerprint Inquiry
(2011)
Basis of conclusions
In order to allow the court to assess the strength of their evidence, fingerprint examiners should highlight the variables relevant to their assessment and how they have formed their conclusions …
FP9
Accepted
Fingerprint Inquiry
(2011)
Features demonstrable to lay persons
Features on which examiners rely should be demonstrable to a lay person with normal eye sight as observable in the mark.
FP16
Accepted
Fingerprint Inquiry
(2011)
Academic study requirement
An emphasis needs to be placed on the importance not only of learning and practising the methodology of fingerprint work, but also of engaging with members of the academic community …
FP42
Accepted
Fingerprint Inquiry
(2011)
Complex marks examination
The SPSA should develop a process to ensure that complex marks such as Y7 and QI2 Ross are treated differently. Such a process should include the following principal elements: (i) …
FP53
Accepted
Fingerprint Inquiry
(2011)
Note-taking general practice
Subject to any requirement under ISO 17025 and recommendations 50 and 51, note-taking as to the detail found on analysis and the process of comparison, though not mandatory, should become …