Association of Chief Police Officers  
  National Fingerprint Conference
16th & 17th October 2007
 
  Paramount Hinckley Island Hotel, Hinckley, Leicestershire  
 

The National Fingerprint Conference is an important feature in the calendar of fingerprint managers and practitioners   The 2007 event is currently being organised and several key themes are currently being developed for conference input, and more importantly, conference discussion: -

 
Richard Earland, Chief Information Officer, National Police Improvement Agency, has agreed to be the Key Note Speaker and this should not only give a view of the future, governmental requirements and expectations, but also set the scene for the conference debates.
 
 
Project Delivery
An update on Ident1, Livescan, Lantern & Skiddaw
 
 
 
National Police Improvement Agency – Forensic Programme
How the NPIA are taking Project Ullswater forward and migrating this into the NPIA work programme
 
 
 
Work Force Development
How training programmes for fingerprint personnel from trainee to fingerprint expert are being developed and also how fingerprint roles are being reviewed
 
 
 
Erroneous, Contentious and Disputed Identifications
Now that the Justice 1 Committee of the Scottish Executive has reported on the Scottish Fingerprint Service, does that report have any effect in England & Wales? – the latest update
 
 
 
East Midlands Collaboration
A case study into the work that the East Midlands Region have carried out into collaboration of fingerprint service.
 
 
 

From these themes it can clearly be seen that there are several weighty issues for the fingerprint community to debate.

 
 

The NFC 2007 style will allow delegates a real and lively environment to discuss these important issues and contribute to a range of developments.