BlindSite: Blood, Lipid and Illicit Narcotics Detection and Situation

在发生谋杀、人身攻击或性攻击等严重犯罪后，对犯罪现场进行法医检查，以确定是否有血液、唾液、汗液和精液等体液;然而，这种物证的检测和可视化（例如，鲁米诺确认血液）可能会破坏或不可逆地改变它。通常还有其他挑战，包括试图删除/销毁法医证据，火灾，爆炸，或其他化学品的存在，例如漂白剂，这会使许多法医技术无效。不幸的是，预算削减，2012年法医科学服务的关闭以及警方越来越依赖不受监管的专家进行法医测试，使其处于一种糟糕的状态，法医工作分散在警察部队和提供者之间，法医科学的研发停滞不前，与高科技相比，大众对法医科学的看法。Smytec建议通过BlindSite来纠正这种平衡（血液、脂质和非法麻醉品检测和情况）一种部署在手持设备中的新型成像技术，用于检测身体分泌物、毒品和爆炸物。这项技术是创新的，完全新颖的法医测试市场。该项目的目标是开发供警察部队和法医部门使用的技术，以提高犯罪现场评估的准确性和效率。

After a serious crime such as murder, physical or sexual assault, crime scenes are forensically examined for body fluids such as blood, saliva, sweat and semen; however, the detection and visualisation of such physical evidence (e.g. Luminol to confirm blood) may destroy or irreversibly change it. Frequently there are other challenges including attempted removal/destruction of forensic evidence, fire, explosion, or presence of other chemicals e.g. bleach which can render many forensic techniques ineffective. Unfortunately, budget cuts, closure of the Forensic Science Service in 2012 and increasing reliance of the police on unregulated experts to conduct forensic testing has left it in a poor state with forensic work fragmented between police forces and providers and R&D in forensic science had stagnated, falling behind with advances in science in contrast to the high-tech public perception of forensic science fostered by popular television programmes.Smytec proposes to redress this balance with BlindSite (Blood, Lipids and Illicit Narcotics Detection and Situation) a novel imaging technique deployed in a hand-held device that detects bodily secretions, drugs, and explosives. This technology is innovative and completely novel to the forensic testing market. The project objective is to develop the technology to be used by police forces and forensic services to improve the accuracy and efficiency of crime scene evaluation.