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VCA
Volunteer Fingerprint Training
March, 2003
| On Wednesday, March 19th twelve
new VCA volunteers attended a fingerprint training held in VCA's Training
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Investigator, Frank Hernandez, an investigator with the Bureau of
Investigation for the Santa Clara County District Attorney's Office, was our
fingerprinting instructor for the evening. |
Volunteers who participated in this law enforcement fingerprint training
learned:
- background information about VCA and its services
- the various categories of missing children, definition and statistics
- the importance of fingerprints as an identification tool
- basic fingerprint characteristics
- fingerprinting techniques for standard 10-print, ink-rolled fingerprints
some of the problems volunteers may encounter from children when
fingerprinting in the field
- VCA's fingerprinting process
- the importance of VCA's safety literature and its various uses
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Volunteers then had an opportunity to practice fingerprinting one another
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while Frank observed and gave pointers |
| All of VCA's volunteer
fingerprinters must complete a VCA volunteer application, consent to a
criminal back ground check and must undergo law enforcement fingerprint
training before they can fingerprint children at community events.
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| To find out how to become a VCA
volunteer fingerprinter, call the Department of Outreach and Development at
(408) 296-1113. |
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