CSI assisting
criminals?
LONDON Criminals are getting a helping
hand from television programmes that
reveal the secrets of forensic science, according
to a study published in Britain.
The likes of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation,
a hit US series about forensic
crime investigators which has been syndicated
around the world, could assist criminals
in evading the law, New Scientist magazine
reported.
Some forensic scientists are becoming
reluctant to co-operate with the media
because they fear criminals are learning
about the techniques police use to catch
them, it said.
People are forensically aware, Professor
Guy Rutty, from the University of
Leicester, told the magazine.
Among examples cited by the article
was an increasing use of plastic gloves by
burglars, and a practice reported by police
in northern England in which car thieves
leave cigarette butts picked up from the
street inside vehicles, hoping to lay a trail
of false DNA evidence.
But the magazine warned that outwitting
the scientists was increasingly hard.
Dr Peter Bull, a forensic sedimentologist
at the University of Oxford in southern
England, said even forensic scientists could
at most hope to send police down an initially
false investigative route.
If you want to commit the perfect
murder theres one thing Ill ask you: Do
you feel lucky, punk?, he told the magazine.
AFP
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