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ANZPAA NIFS NEWS Volume 17, Issue 4 – December 2016 ANZPAA NIFS NEWS Volume 17, Issue 4 – December 2016 Message from the Director I can’t believe it is the Information regarding the significant achievements end of the year already of SMANZFL will be placed on the NIFS website and remaining SMANZFL funds will be used to benefit and Christmas is the forensic science community. The journey of almost upon us! It has NIFS in these changes and the future state has been been an amazing year published in an invited editorial in the Australian for the NIFS team. Journal of Forensic Sciences: Wilson-Wilde, L. The future of the National Institute of Forensic Science Just the last two months – implications for Australia and New Zealand. has seen: Australia Journal of Forensic Sciences 2017 49(1) 1-8. • the John Harber Phillips Award presented I would also like to express my deepest sympathies • Australia New Zealand Forensic Executive in the recent passing of Dr Bryan Found. Bryan was Committee (ANZFEC) 4 was held on 3 November an amazing scientist, colleague, mentor and friend 2016 to many forensic scientists, including myself. He will be missed. • the Forensic Science Summit 2016 was held at the new Australian Federal Police (AFP) I would like to thank the NIFS team and all the forensic laboratory in Canberra stakeholders for all the hard work they have provided. I think we have achieved some amazing things in • the NIFS Awards were determined and presented 2016; of which we should all be proud. to the South Australia and New Zealand recipients I wish you and your families all the best for Christmas and the New Year – may it be a safe and festive • the workshop program was determined for season. 2017. We look forward to working with you in 2017, which I am also delighted to announce that Forensic will be the 25th anniversary of NIFS! Science Service Tasmania (FSST) have formally joined as members of ANZPAA NIFS and ANZFEC. Laszlo Szabo, Director FSST, will be representing the agency on ANZFEC and we welcome him to the Committee. Dr Linzi Wilson-Wilde OAM A major activity in forensic science has been the Director, ANZPAA NIFS streamlining of the coordination for forensic science in Australia and New Zealand, including representation internationally. The Senior Managers of Australian and New Zealand Forensic Laboratories (SMANZFL) has been amalgamated into ANZFEC and the Specialist Advisory Groups (SAGs) and Scientific Working Groups (SWGs) have been brought under the management and coordination of ANZPAA NIFS with reporting lines to ANZFEC. This is a significant change, which we hope will provided clarity and simplicity to promoting and facilitating coordinated improvements and advancements in forensic science in Australia and New Zealand. www.nifs.org.au 1 ANZPAA NIFS NEWS John Harber Phillips Award The John Harber Phillips Award is a prestigious peer recognition award that is awarded to an individual who has provided outstanding contributions to the advancement of forensic sciences in Australia and New Zealand. The 2016 award recipient was Mr Alastair Ross AM (retired Director, ANZPAA NIFS). The Award recognises Mr Ross’ long service to the Image: Alastair Ross receives the John Harber Phillips award profession, in particular his role at NIFS. NIFS was a from Chief Commissioner Graham Ashton, recognizing vehicle to galvanise the New Zealand and Australian Alastair’s outstanding contribution to Australian and New forensic science community, particularly at the Zealand forensic sciences practitioner level. This had an impact on the establishment of national training programs and a “It is a huge honour to win the Award. John Harber common approach to practices, such as testing Phillips was the Chairman of the NIFS Board. He was methods used in forensic science laboratories. an instigator in the establishment of NIFS and a tireless supporter of it and forensic science. John While at NIFS, Mr Ross worked alongside the Senior Harber Phillips was also the Chief Justice of the Managers of Australian and New Zealand Forensic Supreme Court of Victoria but always found time for Laboratories (SMANZFL) and the National NIFS and for me as the Director. He had a great Association of Testing Authorities (NATA) to impact on the Institute and on me, personally,” said introduce a national laboratory accreditation Mr Ross. program in 1994. It was the first program in the world to include crime scene examination, fundamental to The Award and Medal was formally presented to Mr forensic science. Ross at The Australia New Zealand Police Commissioners Forum in Melbourne on 20 October NIFS established programs to fund Specialist 2016. Advisory Groups (SAGs) and an annual program of subject specific workshops which were effectively knowledge and technology transfer forums. This enabled the learning and the change to be passed on to practitioners on an Australia New Zealand- wide basis. Mr Ross’ commitment to the forensic sciences has continued long after his retirement and he has since worked on a number of special projects in Australia and New Zealand. www.nifs.org.au 2 ANZPAA NIFS NEWS Australia New Zealand Forensic Executive Committee (ANZFEC) Update The Australia New Zealand Forensic Executive Committee (ANZFEC) met on 3 November 2016. The Committee was joined by new members Dr. Michael Collins (National Measurement Institute) and Simon Rockcliff (ACT Government Analytical Laboratories). The Committee received updates on current projects and ongoing activities and approved: • the commencement of a facial identification Image: ANZFEC meeting in progress project Chair and Deputy Chair. We are pleased to announce • the End-to-End Forensic Identification Process that the new ANZFEC Chair is Inspector John Walker, Project: Phase 2 Report New Zealand Police and the new Deputy Chair is Dr Gavin Turbett, PathWest WA. We congratulate both • the commencement of the End-To-End of them on their appointment and look forward to Implementation Project working with them and ANZFEC in 2017. • a guideline for forensic fundamentals. The Committee also noted a report on current and emerging issues in forensic science service provision. The reports and guidelines will be made available on the NIFS website where possible. Also discussed, were remaining decisions and work regarding the amalgamation of SMANZFL into ANZFEC and the movement of the SAGs to NIFS management and coordination. The SAGs will now provide quarterly reports and an annual presentation to ANZFEC. ANZFEC approved a joint SAG meeting in 2017 and a review of the SAGs commencing after. ANZFEC allocated mentors to each of the SAGs, Chemical Warfare Agent Laboratory Network (CWALN) and ANZPAA Disaster Victim Identification Commitee (ADVIC). ANZFEC also created a subcommittee to look at the Quality Managers Forum and how this should be progressed. In regards to representation of government service providers of Australia and New Zealand internationally, ANZFEC determined that the NIFS branding would be used and agreed that a coordinated approach to participation on internal committees and working groups by forensic science practitioners from Australia or New Zealand will be developed. Last but definitely not least, ANZFEC voted on a new www.nifs.org.au 3 ANZPAA NIFS NEWS Vale Dr Bryan Found Dr Bryan Found, who passed away while Bryan also tending his garden on the 23 October 2016, contributed immensely to the was the Chief Forensic Scientist at Victoria work of NIFS. He Police. He was internationally renowned for delivered a NIFS his development of the science of workshop roadshow handwriting analysis and his dedication to in Australia (Sydney, Brisbane, Melbourne enhancing the rigour of forensic science and Perth) and New across many disciplines. Zealand (Wellington) on the results of a Starting his forensic career as a biologist with the 1995 NIFS research Victoria Police Forensic Centre in 1987, he soon grant to develop became interested in document investigation cases. computer based Having undergone early training as a document measurement examiner, he began to question the science methodology to underpinning established techniques. His increasing assist in the forensic interest in evidence reliability led him to obtaining a Image: A young Dr Bryan Found reprinted from NIFS Newsletter, comparison of graduate diploma in neuroscience and PhD in human June 1995 handwriting traces. sensory and motor systems associated with handwriting from LaTrobe University. In 2007, NIFS hosted a combined Specialist Advisory Group meeting where Bryan’s entertaining Bryan’s career then took on an academic pathway presentation enlightened Australian and New where he became the head of the Forensic Expertise Zealand experts representing multiple forensic Profiling Laboratory at Latrobe University. He later disciplines about the potential risks of inadequate returned part time to Victoria Police as a senior management of contextual information in casework. forensic scientist while maintaining his senior In 2012, NIFS partnered with the Office of the Chief researcher role with LaTrobe. Scientist to run a workshop on cognitive factors in This proved to be a very prolific time for Bryan where forensic science presented by Dr Itiel Dror, a he published a great many scientific papers, co- renowned neuroscientist. developed a standardised method for forensic More recently, Bryan was a key consultant in handwriting analysis (still used today worldwide) and developing a forensic fundamentals template to be established himself as an internationally in-demand used to identify gaps in forensic science research speaker raising awareness of the impact of cognitive and method validation. Bryan’s penultimate work bias in forensic science. with NIFS was on the development of a soon to be It was no surprise to the forensic community when issued introductory guide to evaluative reporting to Bryan was given the role of the inaugural Chief raise awareness in Australia and New Zealand of the Forensic Scientist of Victoria Police where, through benefits of applying a logical framework to reporting his research, he worked tirelessly to develop the forensic results.
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