IDENTIFICATION OF HANDWRITINGS
Which attempts to show whether a questioned document came from the same hand as a document known to have been written by a particular person.
Authenticating The Truth
Questioned Documents
Questioned Document Examination is a catch all term for a field that encompasses a number of subspecialties, some of which overlap and any of which could play a role of investigation of crime.
A Questioned document refer to any signature, handwriting, typewriting or any signs or symbols whose source or authenticity is in dispute or doubtful. Questioned Documents examination is usually done in cases of forgery, counterfeiting, kidnapping, gambling, organized crime, white collar crime, art crime, theft, robbery, burglary, serial murder, psychological profiling & deviant sex crimes.
The types of documents that come under the examiners preview include wills, contracts letters, photos, lottery tickets, pass ports, voter registration, driver’s license, etc.
SIGNATURE VERIFICATIONS
Signatures are compared by ruling out coincidence and simulation. We can reach on the conclusion that both the known and questioned signatures written by one or the same person.
IDENTIFICATION OF DOCUMENTS AND FORGERIES
The act of making a close or critical study of any material and with questioned document is the process necessary to discover the facts about them.
DETECTION OF ALTERATIONS, ADDITIONS, DELETIONS, OR SUSBSTITUTIONS
We detect documents that are altered to change the conditions of a contract or other legal entity. Alterations can take to form of erasures and replacement or insertion of material into a document.
IDENTIFICATION OF TYPEWRITERS, CHECK WRITERS, AND PHOTOCOPIES
We also determine concerning documents produced on modern office equipment. There are many types of problems that can be solved concerning documents that have been typed or printed.
DECIPHERING ALTERATIONS, ERASURES, INVISIBLE WRITING
Delicate stains due to chemical erasures are sometimes effectively proved by photography.
IDENTIFICATION AND DECIPHERING OF INDENTED WRITING
Indented writing is an imprint which may be left on the underlying pages when the top sheet of paper is written upon. This impression of the writing is very useful as a form of connecting evidence such as a robbery note, to a robbery pad recovered from a suspect.
COMPARISONS OF INKS
In some cases, it is possible that the interlined or added part may be in a different handwriting ,then careful study & comparison must be made as with simulated forgery but often the part in dispute is concededly written by the writer of a remainder of the document.
IDENTIFICATION OF WRITING INSTRUMENTS
The effect of the writing instrument upon writing as a means of identifying it may have an important bearing as evidence in a case of disputed writing.