FORENSIC TOXICOLOGY

SELF-ASSESMENT QUESTIONS SAQ 1

Scope of Forensic Chemistry

Name NAYNES JOHN MILSON Score ________________

Course and Year 3RD CRIMINOLOGY Schedule MW FSC6

SUBMISSION DATE: FEBRUARY 10,2021

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I. Identify the appropriate division of Forensic Chemistry at which the following physical
evidence had to be submitted for laboratory examination or analysis:
● Toxicology

Medical toxicology unlawful drug abuse, industrial and environmental

toxicology, workplace drug monitoring, drug abuse management, effective drug
monitoring TDM, and forensic toxicology are all handled by medical toxicology
laboratories.

● Chemical Analyses

Chemical testing and analysis is important for legal reporting as well as

understanding the quality and composition of chemical substances and materials used in
products, industrial processes, and manufacturing in medical toxicology laboratories.
Chemical testing success relies on specific industry knowledge as well as experience in using
the most appropriate approach. To solve problems or determine composition, powerful
analysis instrumentation or a mix of techniques are used.

● Macro and Micro physical evidence identification

Macro and Micro physical, Is useful for determining the chemical composition of
paint or fiber particles. In most cases, these will be compared to samples taken from a
suspect or from a reference sample. It's possible that not all of the physical evidence will
be useful in investigating a crime, but it's better to have too much than too little. Physical

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evidence can be a significant pointer as to the circumstances and guilty of a crime if they
know how to keep it safe and how to analyze it in the context of other evidence.

II. If you are the investigator what laboratory examination/ analysis will you request for the
following evidence:
1. suspected blood stains in the t-shirts of the suspect

If blood is in liquid pools, place it on a cloth pad or other clean cotton towel
and let it air dry completely at room temperature. It should be refrigerated or frozen
as soon as possible and brought as soon as possible to the Laboratory. If you wait
longer than 48 hours, the samples may become ineffective.

2. an alleged stolen luxury car

Gas trapping, swabbing, vacuum lifting, and sticky tape lifting are all methods
for sampling chemical traces. The two levels of chemical trace analysis covered in this
section are screening and faces problems. Confirmative investigations are slower and
more expensive than screening analyses. Screening tests, on the other hand, can
result in false positives and should only be used to avoid more expensive and time-
consuming investigation of negative samples.

3. a suspected murder weapon 45 caliber gun

Evidence relating to firearms can be used not just to prosecute the main crime,
but also to highlight important parallel criminal cases, such as international firearms
trafficking. In some cases, a single piece of evidence can be useful in both cases. A
ballistic comparison, for example, can prove that a firearm was used not only in a murder
case, but also in other crimes committed in another country, which is already a sign of
the firearm's route. In criminal investigations, the importance of evidence provided by
firearms, ballistics, and bullets is often overlooked; enforcement activities often cease at
the moment of collection or recovery. Seized and recovered firearms, on the other hand,
may give key evidence of a wide range of other crimes, including gun trafficking and
murder.

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