Cold case review teams and the processes that they adopt in their endeavour to solve historic crimes are varied and largely underreported. Of the limited literature surrounding the topic of cold case reviews, the focus is on clearance rates and the selection of cases for review. While multiple reports and reviews have been undertaken and recommend that the interface between investigators and forensic scientists be improved, there is little evidence of cold case teams comprised of a mixture of investigators and scientists or experts. With the growing reliance on forensic science as an aide to solvability, the authors propose that the inclusion of forensic scientists to the central cold case investigation may be a critical factor in future success. The paper aims to discuss this issue.,To support the proposed approach, the authors conducted a review of the current literature seeking insight into the reported make-up of cold case teams. In conjunction with this, the authors reviewed a number of commissioned reports intended to improve cold case reviews and forensic services.,While many of the reviewed reports and recommendations suggested better integration with scientists and external expertise, little evidence of this in practice was reported within published literature. Open dialogue and cross pollination between police investigators and forensic scientists are likely to mitigate biases, inform case file triage and better equip investigations with contemporary and cutting-edge scientific solutions to the evidence analysis for cold cases. Furthermore, with respect to scientists within academia, large pools of resources by way of student interns or researchers may be available to assist resource-sparse policing jurisdictions.,To the authors’ knowledge, this is the first peer-reviewed recommendation for the consideration of integrated forensic scientists within a cold case review team. Multiple reports suggest the need for closer ties, but it is the anecdotal experience of the authors that the benefits of a blended task force approach may yield greater success.

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关于将法医专业知识纳入警察感冒案件审查的审查和建议

严酷的案件审查小组及其为解决历史性犯罪而采取的程序各不相同，而且未得到充分报道。在关于冷案审查的有限文献中，重点是清除率和要审查的案件的选择。尽管已进行了多次报告和审查，并建议改善研究人员与法医之间的联系，但几乎没有证据表明由研究人员与科学家或专家组成的感冒病例小组。随着越来越多地将法医学作为解决问题的辅助手段，作者建议将法医学纳入中央感冒案件调查可能是未来成功的关键因素。本文旨在讨论此问题。为了支持建议的方法，作者对当前文献进行了回顾，以寻求对报道的感冒病例小组组成的见解。与此相关，作者审查了一些旨在改善感冒案件复审和法医服务的委托报告。尽管许多审阅的报告和建议都建议与科学家和外部专家更好地融合，但在实践中几乎没有证据表明这一点。出版文献。警察调查员和法医之间的公开对话和交叉授粉可能会减轻偏见，为案件档案分类提供依据，并为现代案件提供先进和先进的科学解决方案，以对感冒案件进行证据分析。此外，对于学术界的科学家，可以通过学生实习生或研究人员提供大量资源，以协助资源稀少的治安司法管辖区。据作者所知，这是对一个寒冷案例审查小组中的综合法医进行考虑的第一个同行评审建议。多个报告表明需要更紧密的联系，但作者的轶事经验是，混合工作队方法的好处可能会产生更大的成功。