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Inspector Abeline was in charge of the Jack the Ripper case.

Lots of police and what not.

Sherlock Holmes was based in that era so I would certainly imagine so.

If memory serves finger print analysis came about in Victorian times too... but don't quote me on that...

Sod it, I'll hop on Google now

1892 - Vucetich & Galton

Juan Vucetich made the first criminal fingerprint identification in 1892. He was able to identify a woman by the name of Rojas, who had murdered her two sons, and cut her own throat in an attempt to place blame on another. Her bloody print was left on a door post, proving her identity as the murderer.

Sir Francis Galton published his book, "Fingerprints", establishing the individuality and permanence of fingerprints. The book included the first classification system for fingerprints.

Galton's primary interest in fingerprints was as an aid in determining heredity and racial background. While he soon discovered that fingerprints offered no firm clues to an individual's intelligence or genetic history, he was able to scientifically prove what Herschel and Faulds already suspected: that fingerprints do not change over the course of an individual's lifetime, and that no two fingerprints are exactly the same. According to his calculations, the odds of two individual fingerprints being the same were 1 in 64 billion.

Galton identified the characteristics by which fingerprints can be identified. These same characteristics (minutia) are basically still in use today, and are often referred to as Galton's Details.

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