The FCN’s Research and Innovation Lead provided a strategic update that highlighted the key government priorities supporting this theme that included the types of legislation required, emerging energy, transport, buildings and agriculture. Within forensic service delivery in policing there are key activities directly associated to the UK’s objectives for climate change.  These include crime impact and degradation of evidence, changes in environmental ecosystems, human displacement, resource limitations and technical adaptions.  Whilst not forgetting that there is a need to be more effective when using and managing data due to its direct impact on our carbon footprint. 

 

Speakers on the day covered:

‘Supply Chain’ – Environmental and Carbon Risks Manager from West Mercia Police. 
‘Sustainability Operating Future Risks and Opportunities’ from Hampshire Police. 
‘Improving the sustainability of forensic consumables’ from the University of Portsmouth, PhD student (Churchill Fellowship). 
‘Chemical Restrictions: Finger-mark Visualisation Processes’ from DSTL. 

A lively group discussion followed expanding on the topic and discussing future options and research to achieve long term solutions.  

There was broad agreement that there are opportunities for research that would support a national sustainability policy having international alignment.

If you are within policing or academia and would like to be involved in future SIG’s, please contact the FCN.