PEMANFAATAN BUKTI FISIK SIDIK JARI DALAM PROSES PENYIDIKAN UNTUK MENGUNGKAP TINDAK PIDANA PENCURIAN DI KEPOLISIAN RESOR BOYOLALI

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The purpose of this study is to examine and explain the use of physical evidence in the investigation process fingerprints to reveal the crime of theft in Police Boyolali. And assess and describe the obstacles that arise in the process of investigation using fingerprint evidence to the crime of theft in menungkap Police Boyolali and efforts to overcome these obstacles. To reveal crime investigators should know where and how it started its activities in order to achieve the goals he wanted, which revealed a crime. To get the materials to evidence in a crime case, the investigator should look for and gather information as complete of a witness who suffered, see and hear the events of the crime, in addition to the investigators at the crime scene at the time went to the crime scene should examine and collect signs and traces of the crime, including fingerprints. This research uses normative research, namely legal research conducted by examining the library materials or secondary data alone. The nature of this research is descriptive, namely: "A study that seeks to provide an overall picture, depth, about a situation or phenomenon under study. Utilization of fingerprints in the process of investigating the crime of theft in Police Boyolali than as identification can also be used as one tool in a criminal investigation to find suspects. In accordance with the purpose of the investigation is to identify those who have committed the crime and give evidence and facts or specific events in connection with any criminal offense, other than that fingerprints can also be used as legal evidence against one or absence of the accused. Barriers for the investigator to use fingerprints to reveal the criminal acts of theft, which is limited in the identification Police officers who follow vocational Boyolali identification so as not proficient (professional) in the process of taking fingerprints at the scene. The most dominant inhibitor is not utuhnya status QUO (authenticity of the scene) is a factor that is often caused by the victim and the community who want to know what has happened. So the scene was contaminated due to lack of understanding of the public about the role and meaning of the authenticity of the scene. Keywords: fingerprint physical evidence, investigations, the crime of theft