gidon":n7o17ote said:
Do we have a similiar concept to CSI in the UK?
A "similar concept" - crikey, I hope not! The thought of so-called investigators wandering all over a crime scene with no thought about the principle of cross-contamination makes me smile (once the defence can suggest that forensic evidence is contaminated, it ruins the chain of continuity of evidence, which loses prosecutions in the worst cases).
What we do have are teams of mainly civilian ("support staff" as they are now known) Scene Investigators (formerly known as Scenes of Crime Officers, or SOCOs, who were mainly police officers), trained to log and correctly preserve/photograph evidence. This evidence is then processed by a number of Forensic Science laboratories throughout the country, which can be a lengthy job, as there tends to be quite a backlog.
Scene Investigators tend
not to wear high heels, swish their shoulder-length hair about all over the place, use fantastically-expensive or dreamt-up equipment, or state the bl**ding obvious.
OK, rant over - it's only a TV programme, after all - but you did ask!
Ray.