French criminal turned investigator who founded the Brigade de Surete, formally established in 1812, and pioneered undercover investigation, ballistics comparison, fingerprint casting and systematic criminal record-keeping. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Birth YearSourced to the subject's own account Death YearSourced to the subject's own account NationalitySourced to the subject's own account Defining ContributionSourced to the subject's own accountFounded the Brigade de Surete in Paris and pioneered undercover investigation and systematic criminal record keeping. 1 Connections
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Eugène-François Vidocq (Wikipedia)
In Group: Founders of Modern Policing and Early Detectives, Lead sentenceQuote, In Group: Founders of Modern Policing and Early Detectives, Lead sentence
Eugène-François Vidocq (French: [øʒɛn fʁɑ̃swa vidɔk]; 24 July 1775-11 May 1857) was a French criminal turned criminalist, whose life story inspired several writers, including Victor Hugo, Edgar Allan Poe, and Honoré de Balzac. He was the founder and first director of France's first criminal investigative agency, the Sûreté Nationale, as well as the head of the first known private detective agency.
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