The ongoing efforts of NSW Police Force to increase their forensic capabilities have been supported by the recent acquisition of a VSC9000, giving the Document Examination Unit access to the most advanced VSC to-date, and vastly enhancing their abilities to interrogate questioned documents.
The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) in Lagos are now equipped with a foster+freeman VSC80/FS, following a donation from the British High Commission which highlights the ongoing collaborative efforts of Nigeria and the United Kingdom towards improving investigative capacity and efficiency.
Last month, the Border Guard Training Centre in Kętrzyn, Poland, completed another edition of their specialist document examiner training programme, with participants gaining hands on experience with foster+freeman VSC workstations and deepening their knowledge in the field.
Earlier this year The Attorney General’s Office of the Mexican State of Michoacán reaffirmed its commitment to safety, legality, and the protection of citizens assets through the Vehicle Certification Module, making use of foster+freeman VSC technology to combat illegal activity related to vehicle sales.
Last month Rebecca Nick, North American Sales Manager, and Walter Hiller, Senior Technical Sales Specialist, from foster+freeman USA joined Erin and Ashley from GAP Science on their Forensics Unfiltered podcast, available on-demand now.
Faced with imaging evidence on reflective or wet surfaces, investigators often find that the bright lights required for successful visualisation are scattered by the surface and redirected back towards the camera, causing specular reflections, known as glare, and reducing their ability to photograph evidence.
Read on as we share our three top tips for reducing glare and successfully photographing highly reflective surfaces with the Crime-lite AUTO.
Advanced brand protection features are now applied to a wide variety of items, such as alcohol, cigarettes, vape cartridges, pharmaceuticals, and electronic devices, including holograms, colour-changing or UV-fluorescent inks, and micro-printed lines or watermarks. This article explores our top tips for examining these often-hidden features using our VSC workstations, to detect fakes and frauds.
Despite their frequent involvement in major crimes in the UK and beyond, a recent study is the first of its kind to focus solely on the effectiveness of the RECOVER LFT method on developing fingermarks on stainless steel knives: leading to positive comparisons to other commonly used methods.
Whilst performing examinations with the VSC range, areas of interest may need to be marked up on the digital image and accurate measurements be taken. Using the annotations and measurement tools, shapes, lines and text can be overlaid onto the digital image, but there are a few tips that can ensure measurements are precise and accurate, and annotations are kept neat whilst still indicating an area of interest.
A recent study from the Department of Forensic Genetics at the Pomeranian Medical University in Szczecin, Poland, assess the impact of fabric composition and colour on the visualisation of biological traces including blood, saliva, semen, and urine, using our forensic laboratory-specific light source, the Crime-lite ML PRO.
