General Investigations

County Detectives are charged with the responsibility of conducting investigations at the direction of the District Attorney. Law enforcement agencies that lack the required expertise, manpower, or ability to investigate such things as white-collar crime, computer crime, or a major crime can request assistance of the County Detectives via the District Attorney.

Criminalistics

Criminalistics is the application of various sciences to answer questions relating to examination and comparison of biological evidence, trace evidence, impression evidence (such as fingerprints, shoeprints, and tire tracks), controlled substances, firearms, and other evidence in criminal investigations. Typically, evidence is processed in a crime lab. Some of the forensic science disciplines are:

Forensic odontology - study of the uniqueness of dentition.
Forensic toxicology - study of the effect of drugs and poisons on the human body.
Forensic engineering - studies the causes of failure of devices and structures.
Forensic accounting - study and interpretation of accounting evidence.
Forensic economics - study and interpretation of economic damage evidence to include present day calculations of lost earnings and benefits, the lost value of a business, lost business profits, lost value of household service, replacement labor costs and future medical care costs.
Forensic psychology and forensic psychiatry - deal with the legal aspects of human behavior.
Forensic anthropology - application of physical anthropology in a legal setting, usually for the recovery and identification of skeletonized human remains.
Forensic entomology - deals with the examination of insects in, on, and around human remains to assist in determination of time or location of death.
Forensic evidence - deals with scientific evidence from a crime scene.
Questioned document examination - study and interpretation of evidence that takes the form of document.

Criminalistics information provided by Wikipedia.com

Questions about General Investigations can be answered by emailing:

Chief County Detective Larry Dombrowski
ldombrowski@eriecountygov.org


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