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- Services
- Get a Background Check
- Criminal Record Check
- Judicial Matters Check
- Vulnerable Sector Check
- Request Your Police Reports
- Freedom of Information Request
- Request a Paid Duty Officer
- Bicycle Registration
- Business with Toronto Police
- Parking Services
- Collision Reporting
- Towing
- Report illegal parking
- Resource Centre
- Form Centre
- Understanding Alarm Response
- Victim & Witness Resources
- Attempt/Threaten Suicide Information on CPIC
- Fingerprint & Photograph Destruction
- Vulnerable Persons Registry
- Book A Divisional Community Room
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- Missing & Missed Implementation
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- Hate-Motivated Crime
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- Race and Identity-Based Data Collection
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- Victim & Witness Resources
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- Avoiding Parking Tickets
- Preventing Fraud
Document Section
Staffed by a civilian Fingerprint Examiner and a Document Technician, the Document Section is responsible for the chemical treatment and examination of criminal writings for fingerprints.
The Document Section is responsible for the processing, examining and identifying latent fingerprints and palm prints found on criminal writings like hold-up notes, counterfeit money, real money, threatening letters, fraudulent cheques and hate crimes.
Documents received from various units of the Toronto Police Service are chemically treated to develop any latent fingerprints thereon. The developed prints are then photographed and the negatives filed for future comparison. Any fingerprints found on the documents are compared to the fingerprints of suspects supplied by the investigating units. If no identification is made, the found prints, if suitable, are searched via AFIS.
If an identification, or "match" results from comparison or search, the Fingerprint Technician who found the fingerprint on the document will, if required, present the identification evidence in court.
Processes Used
- DFO and Indanedione visualize: Amino acid reagent, requiring an alternate light source
- Ninhydrin: Amino acid reagent
- Physical Developer: Silver based process that reacts to lipids, oils and waxes in fingerprint secretions
- Oil Red O: Chemical treatment that reacts to lipids, oils and waxes in fingerprint deposits, used on wetted documents and papers.
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