It is Science Week 2020, and to celebrate we are featuring some of the staff in the Queensland Police Service (QPS) Forensic Services Group.
Introducing one of our fingerprint experts from the bureau…
Name: Tony Martinez
Rank: Sergeant
Branch: Forensic Services Group, Fingerprint Bureau
Qualifications:
Diploma of Public Safety (Forensic investigations)
Certificate of Expertise in the Science of Fingerprints
Equipment: fingerprint brushes, cyanoacrylate (superglue) cabinets, forensic light sources, lasers, fingerprint chemicals, DSLR camera
Year joined QPS: 2004
Meet Sergeant Martinez of the Fingerprint Bureau
What is the most interesting part of your job?
Finding fingerprints on objects using advanced chemical techniques is always interesting.
The development of a fingerprint from a surface that has been exposed to the elements such as rain can be very challenging, however using advanced techniques we have been able to develop important fingerprint impressions, even when you would have thought that all the forensic evidence would have been washed away.
My two favourite pieces of fingerprint trivia?
Whilst identical twins have the same