The Fingerprint Development Handbook is a condensed version of the Manual of Fingerprint Development Techniques by the Police Scientific Development Branch of the Home Office in the United Kingdom.

Many of you may remember the first edition of the Handbook and some of you even used it as a text book in your classes in the past. Then, it went out of print and no more copies were available for almost two years.

The Home Office rewrote the large Manual, updating the new chemical processes and including an extensive section on the safety issues and that book was available last year.

Now, the Home Office has produced the updated version of the Handbook. It has the wonderful sequential processing charts which tell you the types of chemical processes to use to develop latent prints on various types of surfaces and in which order. Please remember though, this is a condensed version of the Manual and some information, such as formulations, are in the Manual but not in the Handbook.

The Handbook is supposed to supplement the Manual, not replace it.

Because we do not know how many copies will be produced, if you want one copy or if you want twenty or thirty copies for future classes, you might want to order them now. We cannot guarantee how long these informative books will remain in print.

If you have ongoing classes all year long, consider ordering enough books for all your classes at this time. Many of you were very unhappy when you tried to order this book a few years ago and then, had to scramble around for a replacement book when you found out this one was out of print.

©2005, 130 pages, small format with glossy paper, colour charts and color pictures