Advanced Laser Imaging Ltd, a UK laser scanning and photogrammetry product company, is offering virtual 3D immersive environments and analysis techniques.
According to the company, 3D digital recordings of crime scenes can be captured quickly, reducing the amount of time and the number of people required at the scene and hence, the risk of contamination. The ‘enhanced capture’ of the scene’s details can also reduce the risk of lost evidence, and the recording can be made available for the investigators, removing the need for repeated visits to the location.
With the ability to ‘walk through’ the scene, an investigator can assess it from any perspective and take measurements. With techniques combining the use of photogrammetry, the recordings can also be used to analyse and plot CCTV fields of view, track suspects from poor quality CCTV, it is claimed, and even plot bullet trajectories and firing points. The makers add that this ability can be applied to the reconstruction of historical crime scenes and aid ‘cold case’ investigations and inquests.
The interactivity of the recordings can be used to help gather, and test the veracity of, witness statements. Accepted as admissible by UK courts and inquests, the images, videos and plans can be played back through courtroom audio-visual equipmen. The company suggests this is also saving time and money by encouraging earlier guilty pleas and reducing the need for juries to make visits to scenes of crime.
Advanced Laser Imaging will be demonstrating its products at Forensics Europe Expo on April 29 and 30, at Olympia, London.
Paul Snudden, Advanced Laser Imaging’s Chief Executive, said: “With some eight years’ experience working within the Metropolitan Police Service, our technical team has unrivalled experience in creating and exploiting the use of accurate virtual 3D environments from 3D laser scanning.”
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About Advanced Laser Imaging Ltd
Launched in 2013, Advanced Laser Imaging Ltd is based in Chiswick in west London. Visit http://advancedlaserimaging.com.
The company says its products have security applications, for event security and perimeter CCTV planning (to identify any dead ground, and measures such as watch points, ballistic barriers and hoardings), and virtual incident scenario training and emergency route planning.
