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Recommendation 85

Fingerprint Inquiry · The Fingerprint Inquiry Report · Issued 14 December 2011

Government responseNo response yet

DeliveryNo statement from the addressee found

Recommendation, verbatim from the inquiry

●Inquiry recommendation, Chapter 43; Para 41.45

The SPSA should task identified staff with: (i) maintaining up-to-date knowledge of cases, at least in anglophone jurisdictions, in which fingerprint evidence has been disputed; and (ii) monitoring cases in which courts, inquiries or other investigating bodies have made significant criticism of existing fingerprint practice and of considering whether those criticisms should be taken into account in developing and improving fingerprint practice in Scotland. Such staff should be tasked also with advising an identified contact in COPFS as to these matters.

Fingerprint Inquiry, The Fingerprint Inquiry Report · 14 Dec 2011 Source PDF, page 752 →

Report-level response context

The Scottish Government's news release of 14 December 2011, the day the report was published, is its only published statement on the recommendations. Its one sentence about them is given for all of them together and states no position. The Scottish Police Services Authority's release of the same day accepts "all of the recommendations made of it by the Inquiry" without listing them; the site records that on the recommendations addressed to its forensic service. The Authority no longer exists, and the site files its words under the Scottish Police Authority, which took over its forensic services in 2013.

Government response

●No formal government response recorded

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Delivery

No statement on delivery from the addressee has been found in the sources searched. This is separate from the response above.

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