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UN turns to forensic science to help combat illegal fishing


Forensic science, more often associated with solving murders in prime time television crime series, is now helping the United Nations fight illegal fishing, fraudulent product substitution and false documentation that not only cheat consumers but also endanger fish stocks and threaten livelihoods ...

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Police on the hunt for perfect PC crime breathalyser

UK police are continuing to develop a tool to detect evidence of illegal activity on PCs that could be as easy for officers to use as a breathalyser.

Specialist e-crime policing organisations have been examining commercially available digital forensic devices that can search text, pictures and computer code on a hard disk for material of police interest.

This 'digital triage' tool would give frontline police with little training in digital forensics the ability to search for anything from text in emails relating to stolen goods to illegal images.

Detective superintendent Charlie McMurdie, the chief of the UK's Police Central e-Crime Unit (PCeU), told silicon.com research is continuing to find a suitable commercially available digital forensics tool that could be adapted for use by frontline officers.

Source:Silicon.com

Bullet Trajectories: Misidentifying Bullet Trajectories in Reconstruction

Pythagora’s Theorem is the basis for establishing the area of origin in blood pattern analysis and is commonly used in
shooting reconstruction for establishing bullet trajectories. In part, this method of triangulation works well in blood
pattern analysis, because a specific blood pattern is created by a hemorrhaging event from a single source that casts spatter
in directions away from the source point. By dissecting the central axis of the stains to find an area of convergence,
and taking the arc sine of the ratio of representative stains, one may derive the degrees of the angle of incidence or impact.

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Source: Forensic In the News

Chidambaram announces 2010 as 'Year of Forensic Science'

New Delhi, Feb 1 : Underscoring the role forensic science plays in the investigation and trial of crimes, Union Home Minister P Chidambaram today declared 2010 as 'the Year of Forensic Science' and announced formation of a two-member panel of consultants to thoroughly examine the state of forensic science teaching and training.


Source: newKerala.com

Faster, More Cost-Effective DNA Test For Crime Scenes, Disease Diagnosis

Scientists in Japan are reporting development of a faster, less expensive version of the fabled polymerase chain reaction (PCR) a DNA test widely used in criminal investigations, disease diagnosis, biological research and other applications. The new method could lead to expanded use of PCR in medicine, the criminal justice system and elsewhere, the researchers say.

Source: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/07/090708094837.htm

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