Fingerprints on receipts device to fight volume crime

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Fingerprints on receipts device to fight volume crime

Home Office could give its approval to new university invention which exposes fingerprints on thermal paper.

Date - 21st October 2013
By - Nic Brunetti - Police Oracle

An invention which works in minutes to expose hidden fingerprints on thermal paper – such as ATM and petrol station receipts – could prove crucial to volume crime investigation. The Hot Print System (HPS), which has been patented by the...

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