Latent fingerprints are of decisive influence when it comes to identifying suspects; as these are usually encountered at crime scenes. Also, these serve as a compelling evidence in a court of law. Some of the formidable challenges with latent fingerprints are deficient ridge information and poor ridge clarity due to background noise and non-linear distortions. An effective fingerprint enhancement scheme is suggested to meliorate the clarity and continuity of ridges and valleys in a latent fingerprint image. The proposed method deals with both local (minutia or singular points; ridge termination, bifurcation, broken ridges, short ridges, core and delta) and global features (ridge orientation and ridge frequency), while retaining the true ridge-valley structures and removing noise at the same time. The proposed design establishes scalability, accessibility and flexibility.