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The Forensic Exhibit 2020 ANZFEC Australia New THE Zealand ADVIC CWALN Biology Chemical Criminalistics Crime Scene Ballistics Document Examination Electronic Evidence Fingerprints Illicit Drugs Medical Sciences Toxicology Standards Coordination Innovation Quality Information Management Education Training After the Fact Certification Peak Body DNA Analysis Facial Identification Speaker Recognition Fire Debris and Explosives Geological Materials Friction Ridge Firearms Toolmarks Tyre & Shoemark Bloodstain Pattern Analysis Odontology FORENSIC Anthropology Digital Evidence Audio Visual Computer Forensics Digital Imaging Entomology Mortuary Statistics MPS YSTR Forecasting Emerging Challenges Informing Best Practice Opportunities to Collaborate and Leverage Resources Discipline Specific Technical Advice Capability Development Inform Strategic Policy Support Research Information Exchange Promote and Facilitate Excellence in Forensic Science ANZFEC Australia New Zealand ADVIC Volume 3 CWALN Biology Chemical Criminalistics Crime Scene Ballistics Document Examination Electronic Evidence Issue 3 Fingerprints Illicit Drugs Medical Sciences Toxicology Standards Coordination Innovation Quality Information Management Education Training After the Fact Certification Peak Body DNA Analysis Facial Identification Speaker September 2020 EXHIBIT Recognition Fire Debris and Explosives Geological Materials Friction Ridge Firearms Toolmarks Tyre & Shoemark Bloodstain Shining a spotlight on the work of the Australia New Zealand forensic science community Your NIFS Team Member Update forensic services including forensic biology (incl. DNA analysis) and fingerprints. The NIFS team wish to congratulate Rob on this The next stage of the fundamentals appointment and wish his all the best in his project is in full swing with a new group of new role. He will be missed. experts for both the audio video and drug analysis disciplines coming on board Rob and wife Sophie also recently to this valuable initiative. The toxicology welcomed baby Ashton Oliver to the world. group has returned with a few new faces Congratulations to Rob and Sophie on the to help complete the fundamentals arrival of their bundle of joy! analysis of this complex discipline. Further details on all active NIFS projects can be found within this edition of the Hannah Jarman Forensic Exhibit. Senior Forensic Project Officer, ANZPAA NIFS In this issue: The recent passing of both Dr Tony Raymond AM and Dr Michael Taylor Welcome to the third edition of The News from the forensic was a great loss to the Australian and community 2 Forensic Exhibit for 2020. What a year New Zealand forensic community. Both it has been so far! It is my pleasure to men made significant contributions to • Vale Dr Tony Raymond AM provide this edition’s update on the work the world of forensics throughout their of the Australia New Zealand forensic extensive careers. Our thoughts are with • Farewell Dr Michael Taylor science community. the families of Dr Raymond and Dr Taylor. • The Big Move – 311 Spencer Street, Melbourne In a year of restrictions and lockdowns (Not Quite) Business As Usual • COVID's Community Influence - Some of the good for many of us, forensic science is still Last month ANZPAA NIFS advised that making strong leaps and bounds. A face to face workshops and meetings • Research and Innovation Advisory Committee National DNA Program for Unidentified will be on hold for the remainder of the and Missing Persons was announced in year for all ANZPAA NIFS Groups. While • ANZPAA NIFS Project Support August by the Minister for Home Affairs, Comparison of methods for 3D evidence the absence of physical meetings does reconstruction the Hon Peter Dutton, to coincide with create obstacles, it is fantastic to see • IAFS 2020 becomes IAFS 2023 National Missing Persons Week. The that the groups have still progressed a program headed by Associate Professor large amount of work priorities and action • ANZFSS Update Jodie Ward and the Australian Federal items using virtual meetings and digital • Update on Activities of NATA's Forensic Police (AFP) National Missing Persons collaboration. Science Advisory Committee Coordination Centre (NMPCC) aims • John Harber Phillips Award to resolve long term missing persons Workshops cases within Australia and to “develop, Unfortunately, many of the approved implement and promote best practices 2020 workshops could not go ahead Forensic project update 8 for a nationally coordinated, consistent as planned due to the travel restrictions and collaborative investigative approach associated with COVID-19. ANZPAA • AFSAB Overview for the forensic human identification of NIFS is eager to continue to support • Forensic Fundamentals - Phase 2 unidentified and missing persons.” practitioner professional development • Forensic Standards Development through the COVID environment. While ANZPAA NIFS have been hard at work workshops cannot be run face to face, progressing projects and other works. we encourage submissions for 2020/21 Meetings and Workshops 9 Beta testing for the After the Fact 2020 virtual workshops from the ANZPAA NIFS scenarios has concluded and the groups via the Specialist Advisory Group • Ian Riebling New Practitioner Workshop scenarios are due to go live. Assessments (SAG) chairs. All submissions must be will run Monday 14 September to Sunday received by 30 September 2020. Events calendar 10 8 November. Congratulations This year NIFS has facilitated the highest ANZPAA NIFS team member Robert number of AFSAB assessments within Morgan was successful in his application a 12-month period. This is no mean to become the new Assistant Director for feat considering adaption to a virtual Biometrics at the Victoria Police Forensic framework has also occurred Australia New Zealand Services Department, overseeing major Policing Advisory Agency during this time. Volume 3 Issue 3 September 2020 1 The Forensic Exhibit News from the forensic community Tony has several presentations, journal to the Solomon Islands to investigate the Vale publications and book chapters to his death of a New Zealand citizen. Initially credit. Dr Tony treated as a homicide, Michael and Dr Raymond was made a Member the Police team worked with local law Raymond AM enforcement to show the death was in of the Order of Australia in 2010 for fact accidental, as a result of a trip and “service to forensic science in the It is with great regret that we field of law enforcement” and he was falling on her string bag which contained acknowledge the passing of Dr recognised by his peers for his work kitchen items including a knife. Identifying Tony Raymond AM. Tony played a as a recipient of the International the location of a cut in the bag by Michael significant role in the advancement Association of Forensic Sciences was a critical factor in resolving the case. Adelaide medal and the John Harbor of forensic science both nationally Michael received a Commissioner’s award Phillips Award for excellence in and internationally and we gratefully in recognition of his contribution to so many forensic science in 2014. In 2017, recognise his significant contributions NZ Police investigations. since he commenced in forensic Tony was awarded the Commissioner’s Commendation for DNA related service. science in 1978. Criticism of forensic science, including He graduated with a Bachelor of BPA, led Michael to set about Science (Hons) from the University of Farewell strengthening the scientific foundations Natal, South Africa, has a Graduate of the discipline through research and Certificate of Education from the Dr Michael Taylor teaching. He was part of an international University of Rhodesia, Zimbabwe, a team that developed a high-speed Master of Science in forensic science video library that captured the dynamic from the University of Strathclyde, mechanisms that form the various types of Scotland and a Doctorate in bloodstain He rei ngā niho, he parāoa ngā kaua - To static bloodstain patterns. pattern analysis from La Trobe have a whale's tooth, you must have a University, Melbourne. His doctorate is whale's jaw. Michael delivered basic and advanced titled “Trajectory Reconstruction from Bloodstains at a Crime Scene.” bloodstain pattern analysis training courses The meaning of this whakatauki refers to for forensic investigators in New Zealand, Tony began his career in Zimbabwe a person's ambition to carry out a great Singapore, Canada, USA, Europe and and was the Director of the Zimbabwe undertaking. It speaks to the man we know Australia. In 2010 he developed the Republic Police Forensic Laboratory. as Dr Michael Taylor - a great ESR scientist, pioneering “Fluid Dynamics of Bloodstain He became Assistant Director at the friend and colleague who passed away on Pattern Formation” advanced BPA course, Victoria Police Forensic Science Centre, 1 September 2020. which has now been delivered 20 times where he was the principal scientist to bloodstain pattern analysts around the in the landmark Royal Commission Michael devoted 41 years of service world. of Inquiry into the Chamberlain Convictions and the McLeod-Lindsay to ESR and provided an outstanding Inquiry. His also became Director, contribution to forensic science, both In 2015 in recognition of his significant Forensic Service Group and later within New Zealand and around the contribution to the discipline, he became Chief Scientist of the New South Wales world. His expertise included crime scene the 14th person, and the first New Police Force (NSWPF) and was also examination, shoeprint comparisons,
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