The staff of the KR NNI Criminal Technical Department and the ELKH Energy Science Center presented to experts from 162 countries the innovative crime scene procedure that was developed for radioactive materials - read on the police.hu portal.
As they write: at the international conference in Vienna organized by the UN International Atomic Energy Agency - held between April 11 and 14 - the presentation was so successful that the Hungarian novum will be the basis of the unified international protocol in the future. The professional recognition is topped off by the fact that the team was also invited to the future conference where the directions of the new nuclear law will be discussed.
The team was asked to demonstrate the procedure they developed for radioactive materials, which represents a completely new approach compared to the practice so far. The essence of this is that the hazardous materials are not examined after they have been transported, but on the spot, and the most information is extracted from them. Thus, the search for traces and the recording of crime signs also take place there. This is important because, according to the previous protocol, such materials were subjected to radiation removal, i.e. decontamination, before transport. After that, however, there is no possibility to collect further evidence. The decontaminating substances also destroy the remains of genetic material and dactyloscopic traces. In the case of a telephone, it may be the entire device.
The novel protocol was developed by NNI crime scene radiologist experts over three years. The demonstration presented in Vienna was the result of many years of work. The show was based on the fictional crime of a perpetrator taking radioactive material into the basement of his apartment, then leaving behind a rucksack contaminated with radioactive material while fleeing in a subway station.
Source: police.hu
The Hungarian team investigating the scene thus had to search the apartment and the bag, while experts from 162 countries watched their movements live or streamed online. Dressed in personal protective equipment, using special radiation measuring devices and wearing radio communication gas masks, the technicians carried out the task assigned to them: they collected radiological crime signs, examined a mobile phone contaminated with radioactive material, saved data from it, recorded radioactive material, and used a special light source for criminal investigation. they searched for dactyloscopic traces with an instrument, the Forenscope.
Thanks to the new method, the implementation of the complex task was such a success that even experts from Interpol and the FBI highlighted the performance of the Hungarian team and praised the new protocol with words of appreciation, which brought a real breakthrough compared to the direction of the international experts. Thanks to this, it will form the basis of the future uniform international protocol of the UN IAEA, while the NNI scene inspectors can be part of the international nuclear conference at which the guidelines of their new nuclear laws will be laid down.
Source: police.hu
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