Many people associate forensic professions with negative things like murder cases, or fighting crime with 21st century surveillance techniques. This week, Forensic Assessment have learned about another use of forensics. Its role in fulfilling the wish of a dying mother, to get her first book published.
Fact: when you switch your mobile phone on, somebody else could trace your whereabouts. There are now ‘find my phone’ tracer apps which are good for tracing lost mobile phones. This is only half of the story. In forensics, we use what is known as Cell Site Analysis. This enables us to trace the whereabouts of a given person at the scene of a crime.
Thanks to funding cuts, public sector bodies have had to turn to other ways of making their services pay. It has been a painful process that has resulted in, for example, the closure of public libraries and leisure facilities. In the last five years, it has put pressure on police forces, with forensics being hard hit in favour of front line services.
The demise of British Home Stores hasn’t only created a hole in the British retail landscape. It has left most of its staff out of pocket with their pension schemes taking a hit. In the last month, the Insolvency Service has called in senior lawyers and forensic accountants.
Today’s mobile phone is a complex beast. The data storage of modern day smartphones is akin to that of late-1990s personal computers. The telephone part of the smartphone seems to be secondary to its apps, built-in camera, video files, and its storage capacity. Back in 1999, storing 20 names on your phone was bleeding edge.
