A wave of terror attacks forced the Israeli police and its CSI units to make a radical change in the way they processed the crime scenes. This change led to a new procedure of work, faster and more efficient, in order to quick clearing of a scene.

A wave of terror attacks forced the Israeli police and its CSI units to make a radical change in the way they processed the crime scenes. This change led to a new procedure of work, faster and more efficient, in order to quick clearing of a scene.

RELATED LINKS Imagine that a killer is on the loose, one who shoots his victims and flees. Police investigators would undoubtedly respond by visiting each crime scene and meticulously searching for clues. They would photograph the body, take fingerprints and question witnesses. An autopsy would recover the bullet for tests. The authorities could then use this information to establish exactly wh...

There has been very little research into the nature and development of fingerprint matching expertise. Here we present the results of an experiment testing the claimed matching expertise of fingerprint examiners. Expert (n = 37), intermediate trainee (n = 8), new trainee (n = 9), and novice (n = 37) participants performed a fingerprint discrimination task involving genuine crime scene latent fi...

A digital forensic investigation aims to collect and analyse the evidence necessary to demonstrate a potential hypothesis of a digital crime. Despite the availability of several digital forensics tools, investigators still approach each crime case from scratch, postulating potential hypotheses and analysing large volumes of data. This paper proposes to explicitly model forensic requirements in ...

The 3D acquisition of object structures has become a common technique in many fields of work, e.g., industrial quality management, cultural heritage or crime scene documentation. The requirements on the measuring devices are versatile, because spacious scenes have to be imaged with a high level of detail for selected objects. Thus, the used measuring systems are expensive and require an experie...

The present study was carried out during the period 2009 to 2012. A total 29 cases gunshot Suicides were studied. Males dominated the Victim group with the Male to Female ratio of 13.5:1. Majority of the Victims belonged to the age group 2140yrs.In 93.1% of cases the Head was the most preferred region and Temple was the preferred Anatomical site .All the weapons used were Handguns and were Lega...

Evaluation of trace evidence for three-level multivariate data with the use of graphical models. Abstract The evaluation of measurements on characteristics of trace evidence found at a crime scene and on a suspect is an important part of forensic science. There are commonly three levels of variation in such evidence. First, there is measurement error on the individual items. Then, individual it...