Methods in Forensics

• Methods in Forensic Science


  • Photography
  • Fingerprinting
  • Hair analysis
  • CSI activity

  
• Acquisitive crime / volume crime


  Property involved (stolen goods etc), it is not person released
• Can be no victims confrontation, if there is threats or violence it becomes aggravated burgarly
• Robbery


  Theft from a person involving violence and threat
• Theft


  When you have been allowed into the property
• Burglary


  Forced and illegal entry
• High volume of these crimes as there is no contact with the victims
• CSI Aims


  • Identify what's happened
  • Identify and successfully convict the suspect
  • Connect the suspect to the scene and offences
  • Eliminate the innocent
• Burglary


  • Offence under the Theft Act 1968 Section 9
  • When an individual enters a building or part of a building as a trespasser with the intent of stealing, inflicting grievous bodily harm (robbery/aggravated)or committing unlawful damage
  • Partial entry where a person puts part of their body in the binding, amounts to a burglary
• Burglary locations


  • Dwelling house/attached building
  • Business
  • Shops
• Policing process for burglary

  1. CSI Tasking team receive logs or burglary incidents

  2. Forensic assessment, scene preservation, CSi's attend and record/document the scene (undergo there own forensic assessment)

  3. Evidence is identified and recovered, scene is interpreted and reviewed
• Prior to scene attendance

  1. Gather information (case info, police log, crime report, call police officer, call victim)

  2. Is it safe, is the offender still there. Is it a stable environment? H&S risk assessment. Is there blood. PPE

  3. Check in and check out with the CSI tasking

  4. Prioritise and plan allocated cases

  5. Carry out a forensic assessment, where is the evidence likely to be

  6. Crime scene preservation advice, I.e do not clean up

  7. Pre flight check, do you have all of the equipment you need
• Health and Safety Legislation

  • Health and Safety at Work Act 1974
  • Control of substances Hazardous to Health 2002
  • Manual Handling Operations Regulations 1992
  • Electricity at Work Regulations 1989
  • Reporting Injuries, Disease and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations (RIDDOR 2013)
• Risk assessment


  An examination of the work environment or processes to determine what could cause harm and precautions required
• Dynamic risk assessment


  A continuous process of hazard identification, risk assessment, control measures to eliminate and reduce risk, monitor and review changing circumstances
• Hazard


  Something with a potential to cause harm (ill health, injury or death)
• Risk


  Likelihood of harm occurring and its severity
• Risk


  Hazard severity x likelihood
• Control Measures


  • PPe
  • Check in and check out with CSi tasking
  • Inoculations
  • Check PNC warning markers
  • Personal safety training
  • Firearms safety certificate
• Staff H&S and monitor welfare
• Record all incidents
• Corrective and preventative measures
• Accidents investigated by the Health and Safety Executive
• Criminal proceedings can occur against organisations and individuals
• Hazards


  • Environmental
  • Biological
  • Chemicals
• Methods in Forensic Science

  • Photography
  • Fingerprinting
  • Hair analysis
  • CSI activity

  
• Acquisitive crime / volume crime


  Property involved (stolen goods etc), it is not person released
• Can be no victims confrontation, if there is threats or violence it becomes aggravated burgarly
• Robbery


  Theft from a person involving violence and threat
• Theft


  When you have been allowed into the property
• Burglary


  Forced and illegal entry
• CSI Aims


  • Identify what's happened
  • Identify and successfully convict the suspect
  • Connect the suspect to the scene and offences
  • Eliminate the innocent
• Burglary


  • Offence under the Theft Act 1968 Section 9
  • When an individual enters a building or part of a building as a trespasser with the intent of stealing, inflicting grievous bodily harm (robbery/aggravated)or committing unlawful damage
  • Partial entry where a person puts part of their body in the binding, amounts to a burglary
• Burglary locations


  • Dwelling house/attached building
  • Business
  • Shops
• Policing process for burglary

  1. CSI Tasking team receive logs or burglary incidents

  2. Forensic assessment, scene preservation, CSi's attend and record/document the scene

  3. Evidence is identified and recovered, scene is interpreted and reviewed
• Prior to scene attendance

  1. Gather information (case info, police log, crime report, call police officer, call victim)

  2. Is it safe, is the offender still there. Is it a stable environment? H&S risk assessment. Is there blood. PPE

  3. Check in and check out with the CSI tasking

  4. Prioritise and plan allocated cases

  5. Carry out a forensic assessment, where is the evidence likely to be

  6. Crime scene preservation advice, I.e do not clean up

  7. Pre flight check, do you have all of the equipment you need
• Health and Safety Legislation

  • Health and Safety at Work Act 1974
  • Control of substances Hazardous to Health 2002
  • Manual Handling Operations Regulations 1992
  • Electricity at Work Regulations 1989
  • Reporting Injuries, Disease and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations (RIDDOR 2013)
• Risk assessment


  Examination of the work environment or processes to determine what could cause harm and precautions required
• Dynamic risk assessment


  Continuous process of hazard identification, risk assessment, control measures to eliminate and reduce risk, monitor and review changing circumstances
• Hazard


  Something with a potential to cause harm (ill health, injury or death)