The Baby and the Bathwater
Dr Angela Gallop, Chief Executive, Axiom International

Dr Angela Gallop outlines changes in the delivery of forensic services to police forces in England and Wales, and the risks some of the more recent changes pose to the resilience of the forensic services market and the quality and effectiveness of what it produces.

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The Future of Police Forensic Requirements and the Development of Future Markets
Deputy Chief Constable Chris Eyre, Nottinghamshire Police and ACPO Lead Forensic Procurement

Deputy Chief Constable Chris Eyre’s talk will focus on the changes in the forensic market place in recent months. It will explore how forensics is likely to change going forward, with the development of e-forensics and twenty first century investigation processes.

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Forensic Science Quality Standards: An Optional Choice?
Andrew Rennison, Home Office Forensic Science Regulator

The changing shape of forensic science across the UK is a consequence of different and sometimes opposing forces: austerity measures, procurement, commercial markets, demands for improved quality standards across the board, and latterly the closure of the Forensic Science Service.

The talk will be a reminder of the historical context, including the strengths and weaknesses of the traditional central laboratory model, a perspective on the current supply models with some foresight into emerging and future models.

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Stuart Kind Memorial Lecture: The Truth has many Aspects.
Professor James Robertson, National Centre for Forensic Studies (NCFS) University of Canberra.

In his message from the President for the 1984 IAFS conference Stuart Kind used the phrase “truth has many aspects “, to point out that the “truth “ that one person perceives will differ at least one detail from the “truth “ perceived by anyone else and that the value of a conference such as the IAFS meeting was that it helped identify common ground. He saw the value of a multidisciplinary meeting as identifying opportunities for developing unifying concepts. Stuart had only recently retired from the then Home Office Forensic Science Service and was free to speak his mind - as ever his employment stopped him from so doing – and he certainly did not miss the opportunity of his plenary presentation to tell the audience of his concerns about how forensic science was evolving at that time.

So today, what might Stuart be thinking about how forensic science has evolved in the almost three decades since his retirement?

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