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Essay / Importance of Crime Scene Examination - 2145
“Investigations should be carried out as thoroughly and carefully as possible” (Fisher, 2000, p48). The use of science and technology is important in solving crimes because through scientific examinations crimes can be solved and the lives of many vulnerable people could be saved so that they do not become victims of crime for this reason. a criminal of a society. In the UK, the structure of forensic science is partly divided between CSEs who are mostly police employees responsible for gathering evidence at crime scenes and forensic pathologists whose work tends to rely on laboratory analyses. The people responsible for crime scene examinations are police officers, crime scene examiners, forensic pathologists, and detectives. Additionally, the second group upholds the values of scientific professions, such as “research, experimentation, and communication or publication of results and subsequent opinions.” (Harrison, 2006, p66). Individuals involved in crime scene examination must be highly trained and qualified. They investigate the scene carefully and the question they will keep in mind is who did it, why it happened and when or what time the incident happened. They will also keep in mind the following question: is there anything that has been forgotten? placed or removed from