Will taking fingerprints at the police station leave a criminal record?

The fingerprints of the police station will not leave a record. Fingerprint record is an information base established by public security organs for solving crimes in the future, which has nothing to do with the case itself. Only those who have issued a decision on administrative punishment for public security or taken criminal compulsory measures can be considered as having a criminal record, which will have an impact on future political trials.

Criminal record refers to a person's record of past crimes or criminal acts, also known as criminal record. Personal criminal records, stored in local or national archives, are historical substitutes of natural persons. If the criminal record is sealed, it shall not be provided to any unit or individual, except for the need of judicial organs to handle cases or the relevant units to make inquiries in accordance with state regulations. Units that inquire according to law shall keep the sealed criminal records confidential.

The conditions that constitute a criminal record are:

1. Criminals sentenced to criminal detention, fixed-term imprisonment, life imprisonment or suspended sentence.

2. After the new crime is released.

3. A criminal sentenced to public surveillance or criminal detention who commits a new crime after his release from prison, or a criminal sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment with probation, does not commit a new crime within the probation period, and commits a new crime after the probation period expires, shall not be regarded as a criminal record.

Legal basis:

Criminal Procedure Law of the People's Republic of China

Article 85,

When a public security organ detains a person, it must produce a detention permit.

After detention, the detained person shall be immediately sent to the detention center for custody, and shall not exceed twenty-four hours. Unless it is impossible to notify or the notification of suspected crimes endangering national security or terrorist activities may hinder the investigation, the family members of the detained person shall be notified within 24 hours after detention. After the circumstances that hinder the investigation disappear, the family members of the detained person shall be notified immediately.