Find a Clue and Catch a Criminal
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Find a Clue and Catch a Criminal

Arlington Women in Public Safety lead community event.

Officer Lillian Hammond on the Arlington County Outreach Team is in charge of the Junior Detective Table. She says this is the second year for this community event. Today's crime is a burglary and the task is to find the person who committed the crime. "You walk through the crime scene, find evidence and a fingerprint and footprint. You compare them to the possibilities."

Officer Lillian Hammond on the Arlington County Outreach Team is in charge of the Junior Detective Table. She says this is the second year for this community event. Today's crime is a burglary and the task is to find the person who committed the crime. "You walk through the crime scene, find evidence and a fingerprint and footprint. You compare them to the possibilities." Photo by Shirley Ruhe.

Tuesday, June 5, 2018

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Photo by Shirley Ruhe

Two-year-old Mateo Vilchez yells "high five" to Fire EMS Omar Herson from Fire Station 8 as his beanbag drops into the hole at the Arlington Women in Public Safety Community Event. It was held on June 2 at Arlington Traditional School.

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Photo by Shirley Ruhe

"Over," Lilliana Rand is talking to the dispatch police officer at the Arlington Women in Public Safety Community Event on June 2. Rand says she has been getting stamps for the various activities, and her favorite was the fingerprinting, where she discovered she has an arch pattern. "It is very rare, only 5 percent of the population." She is the only person so far today who has been identified with this unusual pattern.

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Photo by Shirley Ruhe

Corporal Patrick Smichgali demonstrates how to identify a particular fingerprint between the loop (65 percent of the population), the whirl (30 percent) and the arch, only 5 percent. "The kids choose a finger, press it on the inked fingerprint pad and then press it on a balloon. Then they blow up the balloon and it reveals the pattern of the print."

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Photo by Shirley Ruhe

Maci Cowan is customizing a sheriff's badge. She says her favorite activity so far has been the safe room. It has been vandalized with graffiti. "Two numbers, 11 and 17, were circled and put together in a safe. Inside was secret writing and you used an ultra violet flashlight to read the clue." It was pretty complicated, involving a book with a key inside and spray paint on a thumbprint and comparing it to a poster with people's thumbprints — but she solved the crime.

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