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Sir Edward Richard Henry, 1st Baronet, GCVO, KCB, CSI, KPM (26 July 1850 – 19 February 1931) was the Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis (head of the Metropolitan Police of London) from 1903 to 1918.
Sir Edward Richard Henry, 1st Baronet (26 July 1850 – 19 February 1931) was Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police from 1903 – 1918. He is remembered for introducing police dogs to the force and championing the use of fingerprints to identify criminals.
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In 1896, Sir Edward Richard Henry developed a fingerprint classification system that uses all fingerprints (hence, also called a 10-digit system). Prior to the modification by the FBI, the Henry system consisted of 4 classifications system.
Although many people laid the foundation for the development of fingerprint science, Sir Edward Henry, a British inspector-general of police in the Province of Bengal in the late 1800's, is credited with taking the research of Sir Francis Galton, who published the first book about fingerprints and their forensic utility, and using it to develop ...
At this time, in British India, Edward Henry, the new administrator of the Bengal District, was experiencing the same problems with the local population as Sir Herschel had. Henry was convinced that a system of identification based solely on fingerprints was possible.
In 1892, the British Indian police force adopted Anthropometry. Two years later, Sir Edward Henry, Inspector General of the Bengal Police in India became interested in the use of fingerprints for the use of criminal identification.
Sir Edward Henry, commissioner of the Metropolitan Police of London, soon became interested in using fingerprints to nab criminals. In 1896, he added to Galton's technique, creating his own classification system based on the direction, flow, pattern and other characteristics of the friction ridges in fingerprints.
Jun 13, 2015 · Sir Edward Henry was the Metropolitan Police Commissioner from 1903 to 1918 and is remembered as the man who introduced fingerprinting to Scotland Yard.
Sir Edward Richard Henry, 1st Baronet, GCVO, KCB, CSI, KPM (26 July 1850 – 19 February 1931) was the Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis (head of the Metropolitan Police of London) from 1903 to 1918.
