Daryl W. Clemens, Editor
From the Editor
Publishing dates for the newsletter
will be the 15th of each odd month-
January, March, May, July, September
and November.
If you have an article or other
information that you'd like to share
with your fellow members, please
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Daryl W. Clemens
President's Message
Message from Hayden B. Baldwin,
Executive Director
This is our second edition of the new
E-Newsletter, The Examiner. We have had
good feedback from the 1
st edition
and looking forward to more feedback
from the members. Please pass the word
about us to others and encourage their
joining ICSIA so we can all share
information and learn from each other.
I would like to remind the members that
ICSIA would like for you to send us a
photos of your crime scene vehicle, your
CSI Patch if you have one and photos to
enter in “Look what I did”! You will
find one of the articles in this
newsletter is on 3D photography. As
members you were sent the 3D glasses
when you signed up or renewed your
membership. Besides the 3D photographs
in the article you will also find a few
in the member’s area of the web site.
Thanks for your support and enjoy the
newsletter!
Hayden B. Baldwin, Executive Director
International Crime Scene Investigators
Association (ICSIA)
http://www.icsia.org
hbb@icsia.org
Building a Kit
By
Bob McMicken
Excerpt from his book "Practical
Police Photography"
You
will notice an emphasis on digital
single lens reflex cameras in this
and in the following chapters
because:
- Many compact cameras have
the same Auto, Program, Shutter
Preferred, Aperture Preferred
and Manual modes found on SLR
cameras.
- Just to be different, Canon
uses the terms Time Value and
Light Value instead of Shutter
Preferred and Aperture
Preferred.
- Many cameras have a manual
focus option.
- Many cameras will let you
adjust ISO and While Balance.
- Many cameras have a video
mode of some sort.
We
emphasize the SLR camera because
this is the camera that, more often
than not, will be used by full time
crime scene investigators working
for a well-funded department.
- A criminal justice student
taking a basic evidence
photography course using a
personally owned camera might be
obliged to work in one of the
more advanced modes to satisfy
course requirements.
- A first responder using a
department-issued camera might
be required to work in one of
the more advanced modes to
comply with standard operating
procedures or simply to get the
job done.
Thus,
if you know how an experienced SLR
user might approach a given problem,
you can figure out how to apply the
same approach using a pocket or
bridge camera even if you're forced
to use dig deep into the menu
structure instead of using the
buttons and dials commonly found on
an SLR.
Read More
by Hayden B. Baldwin
PREFACE
I have been experimenting with 3D
photography since the mid 80's. I
was introduced to it by a forensic
photographer, Clarence Murphy, at
the forensic lab where we shared
office space. In all the years I
have been doing this and thousands
of 3D images I have captured it has
never been as easy to do as now.
Dealing with slides and negatives
required special mounting and
viewers. Alignment of the images was
always a task and time consuming.
With the advent of digital 3D images
has become so much easier to create
and readily available to the public.
I wrote the original article on 3D
Imaging for Law Enforcement back in
1998 and this is the updated
version. The purpose of the article
is to bring to your attention the
potential for 3D in our line of work
and it does not require expensive
equipment. I hope you enjoy the
article and try some of the
techniques expressed in here to
create your own 3D images. If you
have any questions please do not
hesitate to contact me at
hbb@icsia.org
Thanks, Hayden
INTRODUCTION
Law Enforcement is responsible
for investigating crimes,
identifying and arresting the
suspects, and presenting
evidence to a judge and jury in
court. In order to objectively
perform these duties, police
need to gather accurate
information and clearly explain
the crime scene and physical
evidence in a court of law. Part
of this information is the
documentation of the incident.
Documenting an incident has
always been divided into three
categories: notes, sketch and
photography. The notes or
written police report is simply
documenting the scene with the
written word. In order to show
the incident photos are taken to
represent the scene. Then lastly
a sketch or drawing is
completed. The drawing will be
drawn to scale giving the
perspective or measurements of
the scene.
Read More
My 5 years as a forensic consultant
to the Jamaican Constabulary Force
by Hayden B. Baldwin
In 2006 I was contacted by an
Assistant Commissioner of Police for
the JCF, Jamaican Constabulary Force
via the internet. I was not
contacted as being the Director of
ICSIA but as a Forensic Consultant
and instructor though my business
web site at http://www.feinc.net
The ACP was Leslie Green a retired
Metro Homicide Investigator from
Scotland Yard. ACP Green was the
lead in all of the reform and led
the way. He is an extraordinary
individual with a great grasp of
reality. We exchanged several emails
and I was then hired through a
British Firm who had a contract for
improving the performance of JCF. I
was hired to give an update and
advanced CSI class to 20 of their
best SOCO (Scenes of Crimes
Officers). I was to spend two weeks
there in presenting a 40 hour course
and assessing the forensic system.
Jamaica had at that time about 70
full time sworn SOCOs which handled
all types of crimes. Their average
homicide rate for several years was
about 1500 a year with a population
of about 2.8 million at that time.
Read More
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