Search Result: Evidence Collection

Xenopus Electronix crime scene and forensic flashlights illuminate evidence through fluorescence. The company offers a single-wavelength model, and some of their products are enabled to change modes between blue and ultraviolet, or white and ultraviolet. Flashlights are available in several ultraviolet wavelengths from 365 to 400nm, as well as in 465nm blue and 520nm green. Rechargeable lanterns that feature high-flux LED emitters provide intense blue or UV for high-output power.

Independent Forensics’ Rapid Stain Identification Semen Kit (RSID-Semen) is the first fluid specific test for the presence of semen. The kit is specific for human semenogelin antigens and will not cross-react with the myriad of other human body fluids that can cause false positives. The RSID Semen kit is designed to help crime laboratories correctly identify which samples from rape kits should go forward for DNA analysis.

Grace Industries’ forensic scanner features a discerning hydrocarbon detector in combination with six different colored LED lights—ultraviolet, blue, red, green, yellow, and white—with various light colors to detect potential evidence not visible under normal light. The forensic scanner features a gas detector that will sense trace hydrocarbons at less than 50 parts per million, indicating the presence of volatile accelerants and solvents.

Spectronic Corporation’s Maxima ML-3500 long-wave ultraviolet (UV) lamp puts out up to 10 times the normal UV output of conventional UV lamps. It clearly illuminates gasoline, kerosene, benzene, and other arson accelerants, as well as fluorescent wrappings of incendiary devices such as road flares. The new Maxima UV lamp is powerful enough to be used in direct sunlight and comes with a rechargeable battery that operates the unit for up to two hours.

Armor Forensics’ LSD-1 laser scaling product allows law enforcement professionals to photograph crime scenes without disturbing important evidence or otherwise compromising the scene. Utilizing technology developed by NASA, the LSD-1 uses a fixed dual beam to take scaled photographs of a crime scene.