Comic book celebrates 100th anniversary of EPS Crime Scenes Investigations Unit

The Edmonton Police Service’s Crime Scenes Investigations Unit has been in operation for a century and to mark the occasion, a special comic book was released.

Legacy of Heroes: Behold the Proof is the fourth issue of the EPS comic book series.

The comic takes the readers back in time to the year 1916 and shows how fingerprints became crucial evidence when solving crimes.

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The plot features Horace Reynolds, who was hired by Edmonton police in 1916 to collect and catalogue finger prints. It explains fingerprint patterns, technologies used to find and lift prints and the system police developed in the mid-1960s to compare unknown prints with prints of known criminals.

Police said just a few minutes after an automated computer database for fingerprints called AFIS was turned on for the first time, the EPS was able to identify fingerprints belonging to a kidnapper and rescued a young boy.

Copies of Legacy of Heroes: Behold the Proof are available at all EPS divisions and online.

To view past editions of Legacy of Heroes, click here to read them online on the EPS website.