Amid ongoing scrutiny of its crime laboratory, the Los Angeles Police Department will deliver weekly reports to a City Council committee on efforts to correct problems in the department’s troubled ...

A Houston Police Department official confirmed Wednesday that a criminal investigation is under way into alleged wrongdoing at HPD's fingerprinting comparison unit, which is under scrutiny following ...

The Latent Fingerprint Unit of D.C.’s long-troubled crime lab regained its accreditation, Mayor Muriel Bowser said Friday. The entire lab, which includes its fingerprint, forensic biology, forensic ...

LOS ANGELES — Anthony Pacheco, president of the Los Angeles Police Commission, on Friday ordered the panel’s civilian watchdog to investigate disclosures that the Police Department’s fingerprint ...

Stunning as it may sound, Oakland's Police Department -- which handles some of the toughest crimes in the Bay Area -- doesn't have anyone who can read or match fingerprints. The fingerprint unit at ...

Rubin and Winton are Times staff writers. Late on the morning of April 14, 2006, a troubling letter rolled off the fax machine in the harried, disordered fingerprint unit of the Los Angeles Police ...

The Orangeburg Department of Public Safety in April announced its automated fingerprint unit aimed at identifying prints within minutes instead of months is now up and running.

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Fingerprint specialist Deborah Hughes dusts a full handprint on the interior of a window in a weatherboard house. In this small, ...