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A Landmark Achievement

By Editorial Team | 2025-03-21

Forensic Training Partnership Sets the Gold Standard for UK CSI and Chemical Enhancement Lab Staff Education Today marks a landmark achievement, an extraordinary milestone for Forensic Training Partnership (FTP) and, more importantly, for the future of crime scene investigation across the United Kingdom. We are incredibly proud to announce that our Initial CSI Course and…

35 Years Later: Reflecting on a Pivotal Case in My Career

By Martin Bloomfield | 2025-02-05

View of Devil's Dyke South Downs National Park

Today (5 February 2025) marks the 35th anniversary of a case that would become one of the most significant in my professional journey. On this day, at 8am, I found myself on the wind-swept South Downs, specifically at Devil’s Dyke near Hove, camera in hand, ready to document a crime scene. The day before, a…

Guest blog: Turning the tide of plastic waste in CSI

By Becci Henderson | 2023-06-12

Plastics and rubber items used by crime scene investigators. image copyright: Becci Henderson

In this guest blog post we invite Sussex CSI Becci Henderson, who is working towards a PhD at Portsmouth University on the subject of Plastic Waste in the CSI Environment. I have been a Crime Scene Investigator for 23 years. Over the course of my career, particularly over the past decade, I have noticed a…