According to Brighton Beach SAP communications officer, Captain Louise Le Roux, criminals use gloves, socks and hand cream to cover-up their identity when committing crimes. “The detective team of any station relies heavily on evidence found at crime scenes to trace criminals and link them to other crimes. If you become a victim of any of these crimes do not to change anything on the crime scene, especially window panes and glass.
If positive fingerprints have been lifted from the scene and the perpetrator does not have a previous record or can’t be linked to any crime his or her prints are stored until such time as their prints do surface in a crime.”
DNA traces and fingerprint evidence could be destroyed, making it difficult to catch the culprits. The station urges victim to be patient until the finger print experts arrive. There are only a few experts serving the entire city of the Durban.
