Sunday, April 14, 2013

Open Blog


For my last open blog post, I wanted to address the differences in crime scene investigators in other parts of the world. For example, I decided to do research of the crime scene investigation in South Africa.  In South Africa they have a very tough approach to crime, but they lack  in the knowledge and intelligence of crime. This is due to the lack of training in the police service. Currently the legislation does not allow officials to gather DNA samples mainly because of the lack of knowledge about DNA. There is a new act coming that will make DNA evidence allowed so eventually South Africa will have there own database. Also police are not informed about the importance of DNA found at crime scenes and because of this they leave their own traces of DNA.  However, the country is trying to gain further knowledge and it is about to start a crime scene investigator revolution.  I cannot believe that other countries wouldn’t allow DNA to be apart of their criminal system. DNA can enhance trials and help prove guilty or innocence.  This was actually quite difficult to research because as I was finding more information, most countries don’t use crime scene investigators.

Faull, Andrew. "Forensic Science and the Future of Policing in South Africa." Institue for Security Studies. Bluegate Foundation, n.d. Web.

4 comments:

  1. Do you think that the reason other countries do not use DNA in trials is the lack of knowledge and access to proper equipment, or is there some other reason as to why they don't use DNA in an investigation?

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  2. How do these countries solve crimes without people to investigate them? Do they go on what people say happened or do they just not care?

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