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In addition to crime scene records, FARO Freestyle3D Objects have a range of cross-industry applications.

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It would enable a judge and jury to better visualize what and how happened.Д®xcited by the prospect of 3D scanner in the field, PC Bates also suggested that digital scans would be helpful to crime prevention methods, helping officers in training and the general public to get a perspective on how to keep themselves safe. In terms of time and expediency, by the time matters get to court, showing something in 3D would be incredibly beneficial in place of a 2D picture. Blood spatter is your main thing of course, and obviously, weapons, the bodyвЂ™s location and position. Say, in a murder, the house, the room, the door would be photographed which sets the scene and is used to back up a responding officerвЂ™s notes. Ordinarily all we can go on are pictures. The current approach is quite old fashioned. Photo via: FARO TechnologiesДЄs a responding police officer for the UKвЂ™s South Yorkshire Police, PC Bates explains how she is responsible for preserving a scene for investigators and that her first-hand account of the incident is the backbone of any case when it makes it to the court.

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As FAROвЂ™s Chief Commercial Officer Joe Arezone explains, вЂњWorking with our customers in public safety, FARO identified a need to be able to quickly capture hard-to-reach areas and very small details.вЂќД®vidence can be scanned at close range, data captured with the Freestyle can also be combined with point clouds that are captured with the FARO Focus Laser Scanner to complete the documentation of a scene.ДЄ professional police officerвЂ™s perspective A Lancashire police officer testomg one of FAROвЂ™s 3D scanners.

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The Freestyle3D Objects is portable and designed to be easy to use вЂ“ as investigators would only need to run the scanner carefully over an area to capture its digital image. Realizing the demand for pin-point accuracy in the public safety sectors, the FARO Freestyle3D Objects is specially designed to capture awkward areas at the scene of a crime or incident at an accuracy of approximately 1mm. A crime scene without a camera is now indeed unimaginable and, perhaps in the next couple of decades, the same scene could be incomplete without the presence of a 3D scanner. In BertillonвЂ™s time, the technology was revolutionary for a cameraвЂ™s apparent inability to lie, and transformed not only the way that crimes could be recorded, but also the accuracy at which a conviction could be made. Alphonse BertillonвЂ™s overhead metric camera used on crime scenes Photo via: francesguerin Popular 3D scanners ScanLAB Projects have also exhibited at TPG in the past, holding a workshop to create 3D portraits of some of the gallery goers. Though the technology had been around for over 60 years by 1903, it took an auspicious mix of biometric expertise and law enforcement for police officer Alphonse Bertillon to make photography a tool for documentingВ crime scenes.ДЄnyone with a morbid fascination of such things may remember seeing some of BertillonвЂ™s metric photography of murder victims circulating 2015-2016 due to the launch of The PhotographerвЂ™s Gallery (TPG) exhibition Burden of Proof: The Construction of Visual Evidence in London. Daguerreotype portait of the inventor Louis Jaques MandГ© Image by: Jean Baptiste Sabatier Blot

In 1839 French artist Louis Jaques MandГ© DaguerreвЂ™s Daguerreotype processВ was launched, and set in motion future inventions that would lead to photography becoming as ubiquitous as it is today. 3DPI take a look and the technology and speaks with a law enforcement officer to put the news into context.Д®volutionВ of images in crime scene investigation

FARO, Florida-based world leaders in 3D scanning and measuring devices and software, have announced they will add the next logical layer of imaging to crime scene investigation with their Freestyle3D Objects handheld laser scanners.

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