Dactiloscopia juan vucetich biography
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Dactiloscopia juan vucetich biography
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Vucetich's personal identification card (libreta de enrolamiento), 1911
Fingerprinting was used not only to identify criminal suspects and convicts. It was also employed as a method of government control.
After Vucetich perfected his system, Argentinean citizens were issued an identification book with a fingerprint stamp that functioned as an internal passport.
Dirección Museo Policial–Ministerio de Seguridad de la Provincia de Buenos Aires, Argentina
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Juan Vucetich (1858–1925)
Juan Vucetich (1858–1925), an Argentinian police official, devised the first workable system of fingerprint identification, and pioneered the first use of fingerprint evidence in a murder investigation.
As a young man, Vucetich emigrated from Croatia to Argentina, where he took a job in the La Plata Police Office of Identification and Statistics. After reading an article in a French journal on Francis Galton's experiments with fingerprints as