identity parade
noun1
Government, Law enforcement Ireland, UK 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.
- He moved through the circle and sat down on Cost’s left like a criminal taking his place in an identity parade.1943, Graham Greene, The Ministry of Fear, London: Heinemann, published 1950, Book 1, Chapter 4, p. 61:
- ‘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?’1984, Alan Hunter, chapter 6, in The Unhanged Man, New York: Walker, pages 87–88: