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FOI release: FOI-0019: redacted response

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Forensic Science Regulator
23 Stephenson Street
Birmingham
B2 4BJ

Thank you for your letter of 23 October 2023, in which you ask for the following:

  • Requesting reports or studies on accident dental injury - biomechanics in the context of falls on or down stairs.
  • Code or protocols which biomechanics Engineers follow when assessing accidental or homicidal fall incidents on stairs.
  • Protocols related to Home Office consultant Forensic Pathologist giving evidence as a witness of fact within criminal proceedings in areas which they had no professional qualifications in.
  • What sanctions are there when the scientists acting in the service of the police use of all of the crime scene DNA profile, and leaving nothing for the defence for the purpose of comparison.
  • What are the FSR protocols if forensic scientists did not disclose the comparison results between the crime scene profile and the evidential DNA sample provided by the suspect.

    • Your request has been handled as a request for information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.

    Regarding point 1, I can disclose the following information:

    I have not commissioned any such reports and does not hold any as outside of the remit of FSR.

    Regarding point 2, I can disclose the following information:

    This is not within the remit of FSR, and therefore the FSR does not have a Code or protocol for biomechanics Engineers to follow.

    Regarding point 3, I can disclose the following information:

    The Statutory FSR does not regulate forensic pathology. Forensic pathology falls within the remit of the Home Office, please direct your question to the Home Office.

    Regarding point 4, I can disclose the following information:

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