John Patrick Moloney
In 2008 employed as a consultant by the Australian Department of Immigration to introduce Fingerprint identification in to Immigration Processing. Achievement’s include the integration of Australian Immigration Fingerprint database with Australia’s National Fingerprint system NAFIS. Commenced the Australian Immigration Fingerprint Section with several “Fingerprint Experts” recruited from Australia’s Police Agencies.
As the manager of the Australian Federal Police Fingerprint Section adopted work practices that best equipped the Fingerprint team for the digital environment. This “crime scene to court” approach was to move all case work to the digital environment while maintaining all accreditation quality control requirements. By employing a combination of the most up to date Personal Computer Technology and the Forensic Comparison Software work practices moved from the cluttered desk environment to the paperless comparison environment.
John Moloney was appointed as Officer in Charge of the Northern Territory of Australia Fingerprint Section in 1998. Major achievements include the introduction of digital cameras for the capture of latent fingerprints at crime scenes and the introduction of Livescan for the capture of offender fingerprints.