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Photography plays an important role in modern crime detection and investigation. It can provide evidence against criminals and help prevent crime through public awareness campaigns. Recent advances in photography have revolutionized law enforcement by providing tools to help solve crimes. Photography was first applied to criminal identification in 1839 through systems like bertillonage that measured facial features and body parts. Today, photographs supplement fingerprint records to identify individuals. Police photography encompasses technical concepts used to capture accurate crime scene images as well as forensic applications like evidence documentation. Photographs create permanent records of crime scenes that can aid investigations and court presentations.

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Photography plays an important role in modern crime detection and investigation. It can provide evidence against criminals and help prevent crime through public awareness campaigns. Recent advances in photography have revolutionized law enforcement by providing tools to help solve crimes. Photography was first applied to criminal identification in 1839 through systems like bertillonage that measured facial features and body parts. Today, photographs supplement fingerprint records to identify individuals. Police photography encompasses technical concepts used to capture accurate crime scene images as well as forensic applications like evidence documentation. Photographs create permanent records of crime scenes that can aid investigations and court presentations.

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Photography is an invaluable id to modern day scientific crime detection and investigation as

well as crime prevention. perhaps it could be stated that without photography our law
enforcement officer in the so- called modern day scientific crime detection would still be lagging
a hundred years.
Photography has always played a very important part in policing. In fact, photographs have
many different functions in policing. It acts as a tool to solve crimes, when it can be used as
evidence against a criminal. It also helps to prevent crime when it is used as a public awareness
medium. However the recent developments in photography has revolutionized policing and
offers many advantages to the law enforcers to solve crimes (megaessays).

History
The year 1839 is considered generally as the the birth year of photography. its first landmark
in police history is generally confined to its application to the problem of personal identification i
those days the bertillon system of the facial features of the criminal were measured as well the
bone structures of the various parts of the body. these measurements were worked into a
classification system and the photograph of the criminal was used to supplement the
classification. Later, the bertillon system was superseded by the fingerprint system of personal
identification under the fingerprint system the photograph of the subject is still placed on his
fingerprint chart no to supplement the identification system but to have available photograph if
needed for investigation purposes.

This are the two main topics divided into this parts ( TECHNICAL PHOTOGRAPHY and
FORENSIC PHOTOGRAPY

Technical Photography- Technical Concepts and principles which includes characteristics of


photographic rays, the use of camer, lenses , fiters, structuresof film and photographic papers,
chemical processing and others.

Forensic Photography- Covers investigative photography, preparation of mug file and crime
scene photography.

Photography, Its Concept


Photography is the production of visible images by using the action of light on a sentisized
material. The word Photography was Derived From two greek terms PHOTO which means light
and GRAPHY which means to write, Thus Literally PHOTOGRAPHY means to draw with light.
In photography, the light writes when it strikes a minute crystals of light, sensitive surfaces (
films and photgraphic papers). a mechanical device ( camera) and chemical processing( film
development and printing) as a process, photography is the method of using light to produce
identical image of an object that can be preserved permanently by employing.

a) Camera: camera use to regulate, absorb and filter light.

b) film and any sensitized material to record light.

POLICE PHOTOGRAPHY- The Science which deals with the study of the principles of
photography and the preparation of photographic evidence and its application to police work.
Types of Photography

1. Forensic Photography- the process of photographing crime scene or any other objects
for court presentation.
2. PhotoMicrography- photographing of objects directly enlarged on the negative and
magnified from 1-9 times
3. Infrared photography- the art or process of photographing or recording unseen objects
by means of infra red light.
4. UV photography- the art or process or recording unseen objects by means of ultra violet
light or filters.
5. Micrography- a very small photograph as encountered in microfilming or with use of
micro film
6. Spectograph- a process used in determining the kind of metals submitted for
examination.
7. X- RAY photography- The process of photographing or recording internal structure of the
body

OTHER TYPE OF PHOTOGRAPHY


1. FLASH PHOTOGRAPHY- APPLIED TO THE TECHNIQUE WHEREBY
EXPOSURES ARE MADE WITH ILLUMINATION FROM ONE OR MORE
PHOTOGRAPH
2. MUG SHOT PHOTOGRAPHY- IT IS USUALLY USED FOR PERSONAL
IDENTIFICATION WHICH IS THE FIRST USE OF PHOTOGRAPHY IN POLICE
WORK.
3. THERMO PHOTOGRAPHY- A KIND OF PHOTOGRAPHY WHEREIN WE USE
LASER BEAM RADIATION USING LASER BEAM FILM.
4. AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY- A KIND OF PHOTOGRAPHY APPLIED FOR PHOTO
MAPPING
5. UNDERWATER PHOTOGRAPHY- PHOTOGRAPHING THINGS UNDER WATER.

Objectives of police photography


1. To produce a pictorial record of everything pertaining to the crime.

2. To help in keeping the police officer's memory accurately as possible as to where he


find things.

3. To help in securing and obtaining confession, disposition and information relating to


the case.

IMPORTANCE OF FORENSIC PHOTOGRAPHY


1. Small objects but of great importance in a crime committed may escape in the first
phase of examination by the investigator but maybe seen and recorded on the
photograph.

2. A good photograph of the scene is a permanent record which is always available


especially in court presentation, in court proceedings, fiscals and defense lawyers
have generally never visited the scene of the crime

As a general rule, take many photograph of the crime scene and select the best.

3. Used as an aid by the investigators to describe in court some of the details of the
crime scene they have investigated several months ago, the small details and extract
locations of objects.

4. To assist the investigators in using photographic equipment and techniques in


their effort to solve crimes.

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