A new departure in crime detection is reported from Ceylon. According to the annual report of the Colony, a footprint bureau has been started on the same lines as the fingerprint bureau. “ This system of identification, which has not been developed in Europe, where boots are generally worn, is,” says the report, “ peculiarly suitable for an Eastern country, where the majority of people go barefoot. In Ceylon, where burglary, cattle thefts, and thefts which as a rule necessitate entry into buildings and other premises are so common. it is probable that in the future it will be possible to state, from the examination of the ridges on a footprint, that it is the footprint cf a particular person. Such evidence should be of the greatest value to the police and to the court investigating the case.”
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 18406, 7 March 1928, Page 7
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