Michael Tay Ming Kiong
NUS-HSA Chemistry Workshop. Singapore. 10 May 2006. (oral presentation)
[abstract]
The Criminalistics Laboratory examines a wide variety of physical evidence collected from crime scenes for the purpose of establishing a link between a suspect and the crime or its victim, including: accelerants, volatile organic compounds, oil spill samples, explosives, propellants and incendiary materials, pyrotechnics, fire and explosion causes, electrical fires, fibres, textile materials, cordages and knots, packaging (paper and plastic bags, strapping, adhesives, newspapers, security seals), polymers, metals, gemstones, glass fragments and fractures, soils and building materials, paints, pigments and surface coatings, detergents, hairs, wood, paper products, corrosive and noxious substances, miscellaneous organic and inorganic analyses, gases and diving equipment, firearms, ammunition parts, gunshot residues, shoeprints, tyreprints and impressions, physical fits, physical examinations, obliterated stamped marks, toolmarks and manufacturing marks and causes of damages. The Lab also carries out crime scene examinations, bloodstain pattern analyses and various reconstructions and simulations