Special Circumstances To Pay Attention To In Fingerprinting

| Thursday, October 24, 2013
By Elena McDowell


One of the legal procedures that people will have to go through during their entire lifetime is Illinois fingerprinting. This is usually the case as this is one of the numerous requirements to being a benefit recipient, applicant, or license. They will have to accomplish this requirement if they want to avoid any potential altercations with the law.

Since this is a very vital procedure that involves the law, one can assume that there are lots of people who will be asked to go through with this. Some of the examples of the people who are asked to go through with the said procedure are the lawyers, accountants, security guards, teachers, and other professionals. It is also a necessary procedure for those people who are planning to provide child care and health care services.

For some people who undergo the said procedure, they might encounter some problems with their fingerprints. This is generally the case when they have some special circumstances. If this is the case, the personnel in charge of taking fingerprints should know what to do. Here are some examples of those special circumstances and what to do during such times.

A special case that one might have some difficulties with is having missing or deformed fingers. For such cases, it is only natural to make use of postmortem kits available for professionals trained to take fingerprints. The fingerprints will have to be recorded in the corresponding plain and rolled impression blocks.

There may also be times when the beneficiary does not only have missing fingers but fully amputated ones. This is commonly the case when the finger's first joint is no longer present physically. The amputated fingers should be properly designated using a proper notation in the corresponding fingerprint block.

Tip-amputated fingers are common as well. Compared to the fully amputated finger, this one is where a portion of the finger's first joint is still available. Since this is the case, then the recording will be much easier. What one has to do is to record the available fingerprint for the tip-amputated finger in the rolled and plain fingerprint impression block.

There are those times when people have an extra finger in their hand. If such is the case, then there is no need to worry because handling this case is very easy. What the professional needs to record for such case are the fingerprints of the licensee's thumb and its next four fingers into the impression blocks. This means that there is no need for the extra finger to be recorded.

It is also considered to be a special case if the licensee has a scarred finger. There are lots of people who have a scarred finger nowadays, after all. There are also lots of reasons why they will have such a finger. For such cases, what needs to be done is to record the scarred finger's fingerprint into the plain and rolled impression blocks without the notations.

Worn fingertips are common too. This might be because of age or because of one's nature of work. If the personnel faces such circumstances during an Illinois fingerprinting, what the personnel needs to do is to apply very light pressure to take the fingerprint. Also, remember to use very little ink to have a clear pattern of the fingerprint impression.




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