INTERPOL DVI Forms
Definition
Standardised yellow (AM) and pink (PM) forms developed by INTERPOL for recording ante-mortem and post-mortem data in a comparable structure. Used across jurisdictions so that data collected by one team can be compared by another.
Related terms
- Ante-Mortem Data (AM)
- Information about a person recorded before death: dental charts, medical records, photographs, physical descriptions, fingerprints, and DNA reference samples from biological relatives....
- Likelihood Ratio (LR)
- The ratio of two conditional probabilities: the probability of the observed evidence given the prosecution's hypothesis (same source), divided by the probability...
- Minimum Number of Individuals (MNI)
- The smallest number of distinct individuals required to account for all skeletal elements present in an assemblage. Determined by identifying the element...
- Post-Mortem Data (PM)
- Information recovered from unidentified remains: dental charting of recovered dentition, fingerprints from preserved skin, skeletal measurements, pathological findings, DNA profile from bone...
- STR Profiling
- Short tandem repeat profiling: the same multi-locus PCR-based method used for human identity testing, adapted for target species with species-specific primer sets....
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- Ante-mortem Data Collection and Victim IdentificationStandardised yellow (AM) and pink (PM) forms developed by INTERPOL for recording ante-mortem and post-mortem data in a comparable structure. Used across jurisd...