facial composite

Facial composites are used mainly by police in their investigation of (usually serious) crimes.

A facial composite is a reconstructed image of the face of a person.

On 4 March the police released facial composites of two men, but later that month the investigation seemed to have bogged down.

The facial composite can contribute in law enforcement in a number of ways:

Some important criminal cases where facial composites have assisted in identifying the perpetrator:

A facial composite of the perpetrator, who was unmasked and wore a dark knitted cap, was publicly released five days after the attack.

A facial composite is a graphical representation of an eyewitness's memory of a face, as recorded by a composite artist.

A local resident had noticed someone acting suspiciously a week or two before the killings; his statement to the Gardaí was used to make a facial composite:

The facial composite has been a central point of the investigation, and its release to the media and general public ultimately proved to be what would yield the first suspect in the case.

Electronic Facial Identification Technique (E-FIT) is a computer-based method that produce facial composites of wanted criminals based on eyewitness descriptions.

While the classic use of the facial composite is the citizen recognizing the face as an acquaintance, there are other ways where a facial composite can prove useful.

On 4 December 2000 police released an E-FIT facial composite of a man who had been seen walking a dog in the Houghley Gill area shortly before Tiernan disappeared.

Facial composite: The suspect bears a striking resemblance to the facial composite- indeed he even jokingly referred to himself as Hagamannen when talking to his co-workers .

Head of the investigation group, Deputy Prosecutor General of Belarus Andrei Shved announced that several people were arrested on 12 April and the facial composite of the bomber was released.

A facial composite was used for the first time in British criminal history, and though no one came forward to identify anyone on the basis of the drawing, when police eventually arrested Morris they were struck by his resemblance to the picture.

The announcement of the state of emergency was quickly followed by a release of a facial composite of the man from the crime scene and a large police operation, which resulted in 9 arrests in Zagreb and 20 in Rijeka during its first day.

Facial composites of various types have been used extensively in those television programs which aim to reconstruct major unsolved crimes with a view to gaining information from the members of the public, such as "America's Most Wanted" in the US and "Crimewatch" in the UK.

In a study of sixty Caucasian female faces, the average facial composite of the fifteen faces found most attractive differed from the facial composite of the whole by having a reduced lower facial region, a thinner jaw, and a higher forehead.

In the meantime, Maraar is able to obtain a facial composite of the caller with help of the police officer to whom the caller had approached to lodge the fake FIR, but much of the time passes without any concrete results on the identity or the location of the caller.