Automated 'lights-out' searching of all recovered fingerprints: Review of the current workflow for latent fingerprint processing in Queensland, Australia.

The process of linking an offender to a crime scene via their fingerprints has historically required significant human effort to compare latent fingerprints recovered from the scene with known fingerprints of a suspect. Increasing the speed of such comparisons, whilst maintaining accuracy and reliability and minimising error, is crucial for providing rapid intelligence to police investigators. One major opportunity for streamlining fingerprint examination is the adaptation of 'lights-out' technology to the comparison and matching of latent fingerprints.