ABSTRACT
If the magnitude of the MFI exceeds agency’s local capabilities and its resources are too overwhelmed, additional resources, support, and personnel can be requested to assist with recovery operations, morgue operations, and identification operations. Depending on the nature of the incident, some agencies, such as the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), respond immediately to provide support. The FBI has a Disaster Squad composed of a team of highly-trained forensic experts who can be immediately deployed worldwide to aid in victim identification during MFIs. The Disaster Squad consists of latent print examiners from the FBI Laboratory who are experts in the field of friction ridge analysis, as well as basic and advanced postmortem fingerprint recovery techniques. These forensic experts can aid in victim fingerprint identification through fingerprints, palm prints, and occasionally footprints.
