An analysis of recent Home Office data showed forces in England and Wales closed 80.2 per cent of investigations into break-ins without identifying a suspect in 2014/15 while just 6.6 per cent led to a charge or summons.

West Yorkshire Police are now trialling SHU's new fingerprint technology with the aim to improve these figures.

In a Yorkshire Post article on unsolved burglaries the Assistant Chief Constable, Russ Foster of West Yorkshire Police, said

One project currently ongoing is a scheme with specialists at Sheffield Hallam University to develop new finger printing technology which has the potential to be a real step change in forensic work. This technology will allow us to gain significantly enhanced information from prints to build a picture of an offender’s prior movements, and is now being trialled at crime scenes.

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