CSI Officers in Tarleton, Lancashire, UK 22nd March, 2016. Burglars can’t fly. HSBC raid in Hesketh Bank. Bank robbers have escaped after carrying out an early morning raid in Lancashire. Lancashire Police received reports of the attack on the HSBC on Station Road in Hesketh Bank at 09:10 this morning, as local residents in the normally sleepy village called the Fire Brigade to attend a blazing BMW. The offenders fled the scene after abandoning their vehicles and setting them on fire and the force helicopter was deployed.


Burglars can’t fly, so somewhere in a crime scene there may well be a footprint. These footprints may be impossible for you to see but a skilled footwear examiner will be able to find and locate any potential footwear evidence using various techniques and skills. Identification Footwear can be identified using its pattern type, the size of a shoe and how much the shoe has been worn. There might also be unique features present when damage occurs to the sole of the shoe. These factors all contribute towards matching an item of footwear to a crime scene mark. Footwear impressions are taken from individuals passing through custody that have been arrested and detained for certain key recordable offences. These impressions are specific to that individual at that time and can be used as record of the type, pattern and size of footwear worn at the time of arrest. The National Footwear Reference Collection is a database containing information on footwear patterns from numerous manufacturers. This database is used to help identify crime scene marks that have been made by a specific footwear pattern. It currently contains over 30000 different footwear patterns.


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