Tuesday, May 23, 2006

Shoeprint database to keep criminals on their toes / New Zealand Herald, 23 May 2006

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/story.cfm?c_id=1&ObjectID=10383088
Louisa Cleave
Suspects and criminals will be asked for a shoeprint as well as fingerprints and DNA for a new crime-fighting database. The national shoeprint database will take shoe impressions from three police districts - Auckland City, Central (covering New Plymouth, Palmerston North and Wanganui) and Canterbury - over a three-year trial run by police and the Institute of Environmental Science and Research (ESR).