ABSTRACT
Collection of fingerprint evidence involves the use of techniques that require repetitive practice to improve your fingerprint-lifting skills. Without continued practice of your fingerprinting skills after your initial training, your skills will become stagnant. If you were requested to process a beer bottle for latent fingerprints and you were provided with information that the bottle was taken in a burglary, you would probably have little problem processing the bottle. However, if you were then provided additional information that someone was shot and killed during the burglary and that this bottle was handled by the suspect, your stress level would go through the roof.
