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Photofit

a. a method of combining photographs of facial features, hair, etc., into a composite picture of a face: formerly used by the police to trace suspects from witnesses' descriptions
b. (as modifier): a Photofit picture
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References in periodicals archive
The photofit resembling Ney was even in Kate's book about Madeleine's disappearance.
PHOTOFIT Suspect seen carrying child and the 'masked man'
"The person in the photofit is still not caught," said Ku.
The photofit was released just months after Ross, then 15, shot Indian waiter Shamsuddin Mahmood dead in 1994.
NIGHTMARE ATTACK Cheryl Maddison back home in the North East.; WANTED MAN The photofit issued in Majorca.
POLICE have issued a photofit (below) of a man they are looking for in connection with an indecent assault which took place in Hartshill Hayes Country Park on Sunday.
A computerised photofit system, called 'Profit', allows elderly victims to give an accurate picture of the bogus official, while facial recognition software allows police to match the picture against existing photofits of criminals.
And they say they even have holiday snaps which match photofit pictures of the suspect hunted by detectives.
TV viewers are being urged to share on social media a photofit of a man found dead in woods.
POLICE have made themselves a laughing stock after issuing a photofit of a robber wearing a balaclava.
The photofit was released just months after Ross, then 15, shot waiter Shamsuddin Mahmood dead in 1994.
A photofit has been compiled of one of the men, who was described as tall and thin, with fair to light hair and a Cardiff accent.
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