Cub Scouts dusted their own prints in a recent tour of the Hancock County Sheriff’s Department.
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GREENFIELD – A little mess didn’t matter when a group of Cub Scouts explored the science behind crime scene investigating.
The Bear Den of Charlottesville’s Cub Scouts Pack 293 took a trip earlier this month to the Hancock County Sheriff’s Department. The group of 13 third-graders placed their own hands on paper and then learned how to dust the paper to discover their own print.
Mike Manship, leader of the den, said the children had fun and they enjoyed seeing the new jail and department.
“The sheriff’s department are our friends,” he added. “(It was) just to see how neat science could be because they went and did their own fingerprints. Some of them got messy, but he was prepared for that.”
Merit Deputy Russell Silver, the evidence technician for the department, said the lively group and piles of dust didn’t bother him one bit.
“Hopefully they might eventually want to get into law enforcement (one day),” Silver added.
Learning new skills and exploring new places is part of what being a scout is all about. Manship said they follow a book of requirements and leafing through, fingerprinting caught his eye as a neat skill to check off. This is the second public safety trip the group has taken recently: about two months ago, they learned from the Hancock County 911 Center.
