Daryl W. Clemens, Editor
From the Editor
Welcome to winter. The snow
is blowing, and apparently
nobody got what they wanted
for Christmas, so they just
have to go and steal it from
the neighbors. I was
surprised I didn't have more
present theft before the
holiday, but they are making
up for it afterwards.
I'm also due to be done as
editor here. So far though,
we have not located a
replacement. If you have
some computer and writing
skills, and would like to
have a voice in the future
of ICSIA, drop Hayden or I a
line.
Daryl
Got comments/questions or want to
submit an article for The Examiner?
e-mail me:
Daryl
W. Clemens
Director's Letter
Greetings!
I hope everyone had a peaceful holiday
and you were able to spend quality time
with your families.
With all the activity going on in the
world it causes us be more alert in all
that we do.
Jamaica has 13 new Members in ICSIA,
welcome to ICSIA! Christopher Anderson
continues to do an excellent job there
training and soliciting new members.
We have a new Regional Division, South
America with Lloyd Roches of Belize
being named the new Regional Director
and Shernadine Peters as Assistant
Regional Director. Belize SOC is 100%
membership in ICSIA! Welcome to ICSIA
and Congratulations on your
appointments!
We have new members from South America
and apparently more to follow! The
language barrier for new international
members is the stumbling block. We have
members in Brazil and they speak Brazil
Portuguese which is different than the
Spanish spoke in the various South
America and Central America countries.
Hopefully as we grow we can resolve
those issues.
I am happy to announce our CSI
Conference is moving along well and can
be reviewed at our web site,
http://www.icsia.org/conference/2015/index.html
Chad Pitfield is the Conference Chair
and is busy working on the conference.
From what I see it looks like it is
going to be another great conference!
So get your registrations in so you can
attend the 3 day event and network with
others throughout the world. Please
check the conference page often as there
may be changes as we get closer to the
conference. Please direct any questions
about the conference to Chad at
chad.pitfield@icsia.org
I am looking forward to seeing many of
you at the conference, stay safe!
Hayden B. Baldwin, Executive Director
International Crime Scene Investigators
Association (ICSIA)
ICSIA's 2015 Conference
New Orleans, Louisiana (Jefferson
Parish)
Welcomes the 2015 ICSIA Conference.
May 19th-21st, 2015
by Nancy Ritter
Firearms have numerous
metal parts. During the manufacture of a
firearm, the machining process leaves
unique, microscopic markings (called
tool marks) on some of these parts. When
most firearms are fired, these tool
marks are transferred to the discharged
("spent") cartridge casings and bullets.
This evidence can be collected from the
scene of a crime, such as a homicide or
shooting, and firearm and tool mark
examiners can compare them with a
test-fired firearm that, for example,
has been confiscated from a suspect.
Since 2009, NIJ has funded research
to determine the accuracy and
reliability of firearms examinations —
that is, whether a fired bullet
(sometimes referred to as a spent
projectile) was ejected from a
particular firearm or the probability of
finding unique patterns on casings that
are shared by spent ammunition from the
same firearm. NIJ's most recent
findings, released in February 2014,
established an error rate of less than
1.2 percent in matching bullets fired
from Glock semiautomatic pistol barrels
to the actual firearm.
Read More (This
excerpt and the full article it links to
were published by the National Institute
of Justice).
Five New FCSI's
The following people have been
awarded certification and
deserve congratulations on their
accomplishment:
1. Nickolas Barnes - member #
732
2. Damian Williams - member #
586
3. Jerome Hobbs - members # 670
4. Sean Grey - member # 593
5. Omar Bellanfantie - member #
695
Improving the Understanding and
the Reliability of the Concept
of “Sufficiency” in
Friction Ridge Examination
by Cedric Neumann, Christophe
Champod, Mina Yoo, Thibault Genessay,
Glenn Langenburg
Fingerprints have been used with
considerable success over the past
century to determine or verify the
identity of individuals using finger
impressions taken under controlled
conditions, or from friction ridge
impressions left inadvertently on
crime scenes. In particular, latent
print examiners are concerned with
the determination of the identity of
criminals through the examination of
partial, potentially distorted and
degraded friction ridge impressions
recovered on crime scenes. These
impressions will be designated in
this report either as latent prints
(to follow the practice in the US)
or as marks (in line with the
European terminology).
Read More (.pdf format document,
from the National Institute of
Justice)
On the Web-