identity parade
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English
Noun
identity parade (plural identity parades)
- (UK, Ireland, law enforcement) A process by which a witness confirms the identity of a criminal suspect, by viewing the suspect together with other people who were not involved in the crime.
- Synonyms: identification parade, lineup, police lineup
- 1943, Graham Greene, The Ministry of Fear, London: Heinemann, published 1950, Book 1, Chapter 4, p. 61:
- He moved through the circle and sat down on Cost’s left like a criminal taking his place in an identity parade.
- 1984, Alan Hunter, chapter 6, in The Unhanged Man, New York: Walker, pages 87–88:
- ‘I deny it, I utterly deny it, my movements were those I’ve given you.’
‘Yet you refuse to take part in an identity parade?’
Translations
process
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