It is Science Week 2020, and to celebrate we are featuring some of the staff in the Queensland Police Service (QPS) Forensic Services Group.
Our final forensic expert hails from the Document Examination Unit…
Name: Diane King
Rank: PO5 / Principal Document Examiner
Branch: Document Examination Unit, Scientific Section
Qualifications:
Bachelor of Education
Diploma of Forensic Investigation
Equipment: Stereo Microscope, Electro-Static Detection Apparatus (ESDA), Video Spectral Comparator (VSC8000)
Year joined QPS: 1993
Meet Diane King from the Document Examination Unit
What is the most interesting part of your job?
We do a tremendous variety of work: we compare handwriting and signatures for evidence of authorship; recover indentations of writing, obliterated, erased, and/or altered writing; faint/faded writing or printing; reconstruct torn or shredded documents; examine ID or official documents to determine authenticity; examine printed, photocopied and typewritten documents for evidence of source machine or alteration and sometime relatively dating the production; and other examinations pertaining to finding evidence within a document relating to a crime.
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