Kerala state Finger Print Bureau of the Police Department is headed by a Director and functions directly under the Additional Director General of police, State Crime Records Bureau. The Bureau comprises of the State Finger Print Bureau at Thiruvananthapuram, and nineteen district /city finger print bureaux (known as Single Digit Finger Print Bureaux) at district/ city levels.

Application for Expert opinion shall be forwarded through a court of law to the Director, Finger print Bureau, Thiruvananthapuram with following documents.

• Standard requisition form.
• Original document for comparison.
• Original chalan of remittance of fee.

The applicant should remit Rs. 5515/- for expert opinion and rs. 110/- for each print to be compared as photographic fee in any Govt. treasury under the head of Account 0055-00-501-99

When an expert summoned by the court in civil cases, the appearance fee has to be paid as follows:

One day salary of the expert concerned plus RS. 110/- for each day of his/her absence from the office in the above head of account. Additionally, the applicable T.A. /D.A due to the Expert should be paid by the applicant by means of Money order/DD directly to the Expert.

Attestation of Finger Prints for the immigration or other purposes.

The immigration departments of several countries require police clearance certificate for which attested finger print of the immigrant is required. Such immigrants may approach the Tester Inspectors of the concerned district finger print units with a written request on white paper for taking their finger prints and attest the same. They have to remit Rs. 1105/-( Rs. 110/-for additional copy) in any Govt. treasury under the head of account 0055-00-501-99 . The following documents are to be produced at the Finger print bureau.