Abstract: An identification system intended primarily for use by Police Forces and Police Departments and other organizations in the field of criminal investigation, the identification system making use of first and second pluralities of photographic facial portions, each portion bearing one or more facial characteristics, said first and second pluralities respectively incorporating portions to enable full front face views and corresponding profile face views to be assembled, the portions in said first and second pluralities being in the same geometric scale and each carrying indicia so that the selection of a photographic portion from one of said pluralities automatically enables the selection of the corresponding photographic portion from the other of said pluralities, whereby both a full front face photographic assembly and a corresponding profile photographic assembly of the facial features of a recollected person can be composed by a witness who recalls said person.