FSNI - Supply, Delivery, Installation, Commissioning and Maintenance of a Humidity Cabinet

Description

Forensic Science Northern Ireland (FSNI) is seeking to establish a contract for supply and maintenance of a Humidity Cabinet for use within the Specialised Fingerprint Unit (SFU). The Humidity Cabinet will be required to enhance the process for the recovery of finger print and footwear marks. The Agency has experienced an increase red zone cases and to prevent cross contamination a new Humidity Oven suitable to process fingerprint treatments on larger items is required. Fingerprint enhancement requires the sequential use of a number of wet chemicals which are then examined using multiple light sources. Ninhydrin / Indanedione are treatments regularly used for the recovery of fingerprints and footwear marks on porous surfaces. The Humidity Cabinet will be used to shorten the chemical processing time which FSNI carry out in compliance with the Home Office Fingerprint Visualisation Manual.