Police Identity Parade

For my image of the police identity parade i will get a minimum of four subjects, i would ideally like to use a white background as most are taken against a blank background to make the subjects pop and make a lot easier and clearer to see in the photograph. Police identity parades are often used to take photographs of similar looking people who have committed a crime and whom the victim of said crimes usually identify to the police through a two way mirror in another room the identity parade criminals or potential criminals are made to stand in front of a wall which has heights marked down the left and right hand sides of the wall.

 

Sometimes criminals will be asked to stand in height order but that isn't often the case as generally all criminals are different heights and so to tell what particular height they are they all stand against the board. The victim is behind the two way mirror in another room, able to see the criminals and will often point out who committed the crime to the police, so they aren't seen by the criminals.

Sometimes identity parades will just have who the police know is the suspect but need to make sure by getting the victim to identify them. So they will hire actors or get volunteers of a similar build, height and a like to stand in the parade with the suspect. A photograph of a police identity parade is called a "Photo Lineup" 

 

Often though in some cases the identity parade has photographs taken of it so if the victim is too upset to see the criminals at such close quarters they can identify the said criminal where ever the police see fit. These parades also can be saved onto a computer or in a file for police to later look back on and look through if they didn't catch the criminal in the first place. If the victim or witness successfully identifies the suspect from among the fillers (Actors or volunteers), the identification is considered valid