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Rai Bahadur Hem Chandra Bose (1867-1949) was an Indian police officer and mathematician at the Calcutta Anthropometric Bureau (later the Fingerprint Bureau). Supervised by Edward Henry, he and Azizul Haque developed the Henry Classification System for cataloging fingerprints.
Developed by Hem Chandra Bose, [1] Qazi Azizul Haque [2] and Sir Edward Henry in the late 19th century for criminal investigations in British India, [3] it was the basis of modern-day AFIS ( Automated Fingerprint Identification System) classification methods up until the 1990s.
Khan Bahadur Qazi Azizul Haque ( Bengali: কাজি আজিজুল হক; 1872–1935) was a Bengali inventor and police officer in British India, notable for his work with Edward Henry and Hem Chandra Bose in developing the Henry Classification System of fingerprints, which is still in use. [1]
While researching on the history of fingerprinting, we came across several archive records which throw light on the key role played by two Indian police officers, Sub- Inspectors Azizul Haque and Hem Chandra Bose, in the advancement of the science of fingerprints.
Aug 18, 2021 · This is because the earliest methodology for fingerprint classification was developed by two Indian police officers, Sub-Inspectors Azizul Haque and Hem Chandra Bose. Picture attribution: Tholarbod. CC 4.0. It has taken over a century for history to fully acknowledge their contributions.
Nov 25, 2017 · This is the story of two men, Azizul Haque and Hem Chandra Bose, who laid the foundation for modern forensics but whose efforts went unrecognised. While the individual man is an insolvable...
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Jun 8, 2023 · In what came to be recognized as the world’s oldest Fingerprint Bureau in Calcutta (1897), sub-inspectors Rai Bahadur Hem Chandra Bose and Khan Bahadur Azizul Haque devised a mathematical formulation to sort fingerprints. Haque evolved the formula to supplement Henry’s idea of sorting slips in 1024 pigeon holes, based on fingerprint patterns.
