The linking and reconciliation process is a set of rules and processes that aim at reconciliating two files, based on specific forensic information (called "identifiers") and operational checks. During the reconciliation, the files are compared and checked in order to determine if they can relate to the same person or to persons of the same family.
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An empty comparison is automatically created when two files have been linked.
You can access this initial report when you navigate to Ident Reports.
Then click View and see the comparison report page.
Now you can edit the comparison report. Click the Add button in the Comparison, Comparison Management, Evidence and fill in your evidence and click Save in the upper right corner of the report.
Now the added evidence appears in the evidence list.
By selecting it (clicking at the evidence), you have the option to Edit or Delete the evidence. Remember to save the report when it's done.
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To edit the Identification Report click on View in the Comparison, Comparison Management, ID Report menu
This enables the following buttons in the menu.
Now fill in your information in the page
When it's done, you have to save it by clicking on Save .
Next select the conclusion for the report:
Identification
Exclusion
Premature
And click on Accept (Identification), Reject (Exclusion) or Premature in the Identification Report, Management menu.
Now the report is marked as closed (lock in upper right corner) and the reconciliation process is complete.
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A report can be listed as "premature" when there is no sufficient evidence to conclude for an exclusion or an identification, and the owners of both files decide to stop the investigations until more evidence arises.
A report can be listed as "exclusion" when the available evidence leads to the conclusion that:
The two files involved in the reconciliation process are not linked to each other, or
not in the way the identification was led (for instance, the two files can belong to two sisters instead of the same person: in this case, the evidence cannot lead to an identification even if the files are related).
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