Forensic glove
AssigneesBm Polyco Ltd, Anthony Coombes
InventorAnthony Coombes
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Abstract
The glove suitable for use at crime scenes comprises a unitary disposable glove with an outer surface having thereon machine readable indication enabling a glove bearing such an indication to be distinguished from a glove not bearing such an indication, such indication being provided on at least a palm portion and grip portions of the tips of four fingers and a thumb of the glove. The gloves are useful in a method of investigating a crime scene, wherein crime scene operatives don the gloves for handling items at the crime scene, and items at the crime scene are then machine read to identify prints thereon made by gloves of the crime scene operatives.
Claims16
A method of investigating a crime scene, which comprises:
- (a) providing a supply of unitary disposable forensic gloves, each said forensic glove:
- (i) being of an elastomer or of a vinyl polymer,
- (ii) having a palm portion, a back portion, four fingers and a thumb, and
- (iii) having an outer surface on at least the palm portion and of grip portions of the tips of four fingers and a thumb of the glove which outer surface bears an array of detectable formations enabling a glove bearing such formations to be distinguishable from a glove not bearing such formations;
- (b) employing crime scene operatives to each don said forensic gloves for respective hands for handling items at the crime scene;
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- (c) machine reading items handled at the crime scene to identify glove prints on said items made by gloves of the operatives used in step (b);
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- (d) eliminating from further investigation glove prints identified in step (c) as being made by gloves of the operatives employed in step (b).
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.