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.
With the assistance of Azial Haque and Hemchandra Bose, Edward Henry devised his classification system between July 1896 and February 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.
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. To sum it up…
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