International criminal organizations involved in such activities as the fraudulent acquisition of motor vehicles as well as extortionists, cheque forgers and rent-fraud perpetrators, extremists and terrorists often leave behind written evidence from which the Handwriting Identification Service of the KTI extracts valuable features and links.
The increasing internationalization of crime poses unique requirements with respect to work with handwriting samples from the Central Handwriting Collection.
Samples of copybook models from Germany, the Netherlands and the U.S.
The examination of written material of foreign authorship requires extensive experience with specific national writing styles and familiarity with handwriting patterns learned in school. Without this know-how, the handwriting examiner cannot distinguish between graphic peculiarities attributable to a given writer and those which reflect only copybook patterns.
The KTI maintains a collection of foreign copybook models.