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In 1891, Henry was appointed to the office of
the Inspector General of the Bengal Police.
In 1892 the police force adopted the
anthropometric measuring system devised by
Bertillon for the identification of criminals.
Around the same time, Henry became
interested in the work of Galton and others
concerning the use of fingerprints to identify
criminals.
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With the assistance of Azial Haque and
Hemchandra Bose, Edward Henry devised his
classification system between July 1896 and
February 1897.
The Henry fingerprint system enabled
fingerprints to be easily filed, searched and
traced against thousands of others.
The simple system found world wide
acceptance within a few years.
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To sum it up…
He developed the fingerprint identification
system.
Following the development of his system,
Henry wrote and published a book detailing
the subject, Classification and Uses of Finger
Prints.
He was the head of Scotland Yard and he also
led the transition from anthropometry to
fingerprint identification.
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