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.