Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department Forensic Laboratory Manager; Certified Latent Print Examiner, IAI, SWGFAST

Alice Maceo holds a Bachelor of Science in biology from the University of Alaska, Anchorage and has been an active latent print examiner since 1997. She is currently the forensic laboratory manager for the Latent Print Detail of the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department.

Ms. Maceo has been certified as a latent print examiner by the International Association for Identification (IAI) since 2001. She is a distinguished member of the IAI and serves on several national committees: Scientific Working Group on Friction Ridge Analysis, Study and Technology (SWGFAST), National Institute of Justice General Forensic Technical Working Group, Expert Working Group on Human Factors in Latent Print Analysis and the Journal of Forensic Identification Editorial Review Board.

She is an active speaker at forensic conferences and workshops in the United States, Canada, and Europe. She has published articles in the Journal of Forensic Identification and Fingerprint World. She also wrote two chapters for the upcoming Friction Ridge Source Book (West Virginia University, 2009) and a portion of the criminalistics section for the upcoming Wiley Encyclopedia of Forensic Science (John Wiley and Sons, Ltd., 2009).