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Article: SCRO fingerprint evidence to be checked independently in future

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June 24, 2000
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FINGERPRINT evidence submitted by the Scottish Criminal Records Office (SCRO) is to be checked externally, it was confirmed yesterday.

The arrangement is to be introduced in the wake of revelations about the service during the trial of a detective whose thumb print was allegedly found on a crime scene she insisted she had never entered.

Chief Constable William Rae, chairman of the Association of Chief Police Officers Review Group, said that "interim arrangements" had been made to comply with the Lord Advocate's announcement to provide independent analyses of all SCRO fingerprint work.

The moves comes a day after the publication of an interim report by William Taylor, HM Chief Inspector of ...

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