Here is a post about stuffs I had studied for the past 3 years..
Below are two images taken from BBC website and TheStar Malaysia website. The first one is the recent car bomb exploded with a serving police inside, you can see CSI on the spot looking for forensic evidence.. The second picture is also a recent picture, a bomb (molotov cocktail) was thrown into a church by some idiots to protest against the use of "Allah" word by Christians, I'm not going to discuss about this issue in this post, but you and I know both the bombers are stupid..
What I really wanted to talk about is the forensic procedures carried out by both countries.. See any similarities or differences?!
First pic has at least 5 person on scene, only to do with forensic evidence, not including Senior Investigating Officer (SIO) heading the investigations, Investigating Officer doing all the investigation ordered by SIO, a couple of police constables secured around the scene, diverting all the traffic around etc etc.. It's called Scene Management.
For a more detailed version, the scene is cordon up the cordon line you can see in the picture is probably the Inner Cordon, while the photographer probably took that photo outside the Outer Cordon, there is a system in placing all these cordon, and also reasons for it, to provide security and integrity.. You also can see evidence markers (yellow numbers) on the scene, so that one of the CSI can draw a scene map, labelling all the evidence found on scene, and know where the pieces of evidence originated.. And the most important, all of the personnel that is in the scene, are all suited up with overalls to prevent contaminations, it's not just suited up, but with gloves, shoe coveralls, face mask etc..
Second pic? Blurdy hell.. No cordon? I believe at least 100 people had walked over the place the police is collecting "evidence" on before they arrived, typical Malaysians will come over, gather around and watch the incident.. Do they really think they are looking at the "evidence" from the explosion? No coveralls? No shoes overalls? No gloves? just bare hands? No evidence marking as well?? I doubt the photographer actually have the scene map with evidence labels on it..
If the culprit behind the explosives in Malaysia was really caught, which I doubt so, a blurdy good barrister will throw all the forensic procedures errors in front of the police, the judges, the juries, and the public..
I know that forensic aspect in Malaysia is still way back old fashion, but it's the 21st century.. You doesn't want to keep up, then you may have a problem.. Malaysia Forensic has lots of problem, I am a fresh forensic scientist, I know that I do not have much experience, but what I had studied told me that the Malaysia Forensic procedures is making a fool of themselves.
Time for a change.
