Events

Digital forensic practitioners are invited to a workshop event on the use of SFR for digital reporting. The workshop will be jointly hosted by the FCN and Eddie Fisher of the Metropolitan Police Service, Expert Network Lead for Digital SFR.

At this event you will:

• Hear an overview of the aims, objectives and benefits of the project
• See demo videos of the technologies we're trialling and hear from participating forces about their experiences so far
• Get updates on next steps for the project and plans for 2022/23
• Have the chance to ask questions

Access will be by invitation only to relevant law enforcement staff

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POSTPONED DUE TO LAST-MINUTE REVIEW

EMAIL US FCN@DORSET.PNN.POLICE.UK TO BE INFORMED WHEN THE EVENT IS RESCHEDULED

We’ll be hosting a Bitesize event on Wednesday 15th December at 10:00 to introduce the new Data Protection Impact Assessment (DPIA) document. If you work in digital forensics, this is an opportunity to talk to the authors and find out how to get the most out of the document. THIS IS A POLICE ONLY-EVENT

Presentation by Emily Burton, Head of Forensic Services at Greater Manchester Police. POLICE ONLY

This is a follow-up to the CSI validation workshop we held earlier this month. POLICE ONLY.

This police-only workshop will be hosted jointly by Andy Crofts from West Yorkshire Police and Kevin Sullivan from Transforming Forensics. Validation of anti-contamination and the approach taken to environmental monitoring are topics that are still raising many questions within CSI units.

Validation remains an area of some debate and uncertainty regarding what exactly needs to be undertaken and what is "good enough" for accreditation purposes. Police only

Accreditation readiness can be a daunting challenge, so this drop-in is an opportunity to pick the brains of our expert team. Police only.

Presenting FCN's national validation plan for consumables (eg swabs) for SARCs, including police forces, public bodies and private providers.

Are you dealing with accreditation readiness? Would you like some advice and support? Join our expert team for a drop-in session on the 8th Sept.

The festival will be opened by the new Chief Scientific Advisor to UK Policing, Professor Paul Taylor. Confirmed sessions include a range of topics, from advances in fingerprint recovery to forensic applications of 3D printing.

FCN is hosting this interactive workshop for all forensic providers (policing and private sector) to discuss challenges and solutions for declaring accreditation status for all methods of reporting as part of the SFR process.

FCN is proud to host this virtual event for forensic suppliers, to help you show your social value when working with UK policing. Social value is increasingly important in public sector procurement, including policing and forensics, and tenders now include specific criteria on social value.

A day of events for the CSI community: supporting you on your journey to ISO 17020 accreditation & FSR compliance.

We’re inviting police forensic staff, investigators and service providers to help develop a Fingerprint and Footwear Capability Roadmap. We’ll be looking at what we have now, what the current issues are and identifying areas for development and research for the next 1-5 and 5-10 years.

Find out how to: flag high-priority cases early, get better visibility of samples throughout the six-month statutory time limit, and improve links end-to-end through roads policing, submissions units, forensic analysis and CPS. Strictly policing attendees only.

FCN are hosting a national collaborative exercise with Dstl, funded by the Home Office and supported by the Forensic Science Regulator.

We’re rooting for forensic ecology services in June, with sessions from the niche services work package of the Forensic Marketplace Strategic Plan led by Emily Burton, Greater Manchester Police's Head of Forensic Services. (Police only)

If your force or police organisation is interested in using the new Digital Forensic Services National DPS, we would like to invite you to join us for a short webinar about how to use it effectively. This event is intended for police forces & organisations only.

POSTPONED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE The aim is to help vendors understand the strategic direction of digital forensics (DF) to facilitate the development of services & tools.

Find out more about the Forensic Capability Network's new business strategy, setting out its purpose and goals for the next 3 years.

Derbyshire Chief Constable and NPCC Fingerprint Lead Rachel Swann will formally open an online event to discuss a national approach to a fingerprint GTD. Everyone who might have an interest is invited: trainers, bureau managers, fingerprint practitioners and anyone who would potentially use such a resource.

This event has already happened. Please contact us from your police email address to access the recording.

Webinar: 10 December

Session recordings are available to members of police forces and related organisations. Please contact us FCN@Dorset.PNN.Police.uk for access. 

Keynote presentations by Gillian Tully (Forensic Science Regulator) and Matt Tart (Principal Cell Site Expert at CCL), followed by a question and answer session with a panel of experts (TBC).

The topic/speakers combination promises to generate some lively debate.

The first national online quality management system (eQMS) is coming to forensic science in policing in England and Wales. Find out more...

A live Q&A session for forensic science practitioners to ask questions about FCN and our key areas of work.

Find out how FCN is joining up the forensic research landscape between policing, academia and industry - plus £110,000 in research funding

The new national Streamlined Forensic Reporting (SFR) guidance was published on 31st July, and this event is for anyone looking to understand the guidance in more detail.