Monday, October 28, 2013

Special Circumstances To Pay Attention To In Fingerprinting

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.

Aside from that, they are also required to comply with this requirement. After all, it is a very important procedure. Such people will usually include accountants, lawyers, teachers, security guards, and such. It is also necessary for those who bring concealed firearms. Various health and child care providers are requested to undergo this too.

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.

First of all, the person should consider what to do when the beneficiary is someone who has a deformed or missing finger. For such circumstances, make sure to record the fingerprints in both the rolled and plain impression blocks. Use a postmortem kit, commonly known as a spoon, to assist with the recording of such data.

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.

Some people might have a tip-amputated finger too. For this, there should still be a portion present physically in the first joint. This is not a rare case so one should know what to do during such circumstances. If this happens, then one should make sure to record any available fingerprint in both the rolled and plain 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.

Scarred fingers should also become quite a special circumstance for the personnel. It is not a rare situation so the personnel should know how to handle this. If the personnel is faced with such an applicant, then all one has to do is to take their scarred fingers and record them in at the rolled and plain fingerprint impression blocks without 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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