Request made to the Commissioner of Police, by the Criminal Investigation Branch, for 300 copies of the instructions for taking fingerprints, 22 September 1904

Queensland State Archives posted a photo:

The first systematic use of fingerprints for identification was used in India in the 1850s. It was perfected by Scotland Yard in London in the 1890s. In 1902, the trail of Harry Jackson for burglary in London established the admissibility of fingerprints as evidence.

The Queensland Agent General in London obtained a copy of the treatise “Classification and Uses of Finger Prints” from Scotland Yard in July 1903 and forwarded it to the Queensland Police.

Queensland State Archives, Digital Image ID 22187

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