Explore who is impacted by this challenge – think about links to artefact one and the wider process. Briefly discuss the impact of the problem on current practice, and quality implications.

Evidence Informed Practice Report

You are working as a researcher and have been asked to address a challenge presented to you by the Forensic Capability Network.

The challenge is as follows:

‘’Police services need to be confident that crime scene investigators are gaining reliable information from the aggrieved, are using this information to target their examinations appropriately, and to inform appropriate evidence recovery in volume crime cases’’

Students must produce a 2000 word (+/- 10%) report setting out their evidence based recommendations for how the Forensic Capability Network could look to address their challenge.

Students must use the following structure for their report:

Introduction (100 max)

A brief generic summary of what the report will set out to do. Do not go into details of the challenge here.

The challenge (400 words)

Explain the challenge that has been presented.

In this section you must:

● Explore who is impacted by this challenge – think about links to artefact one and the wider process.

● Briefly discuss the impact of the problem on current practice, and quality implications.

● Set out the different areas that you believe are important (for example does this problem relate to technology or techniques, are there human factors elements that might be important)

● Set out any other key observations that you have made about the challenge (these may have been informed by your own practical experience)

Evidenced based recommendations (1200 words – approx 400 words per recommendation)

Make three recommendations for approaches that the Forensic Capability Network could take to address the challenge:

These could include one or a combination of the following types of approach:

● Ideas informed by the literature (forensic science or wider)

● Approaches adopted to combat similar challenges in other domains (which you can cite in the literature). An approach could constitute a range of different things – processes or procedures to put into place, pieces of technology that could be used, management techniques used in other domains

● Pieces of experimental work that the Forensic Capability Network could engage in (you could use experimental work to explore the problem more fully or to investigate potential solutions) – if you are going to discuss experimental work then make sure that you are detailed and specific in relation to what should be done.