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Donnell Christian - Field Guide to Clandestine Laboratory Identification and Investigation (Kindle Edition)

This guide complements the training manual, Forensic Investigation of Clandestine Laboratories. Divided into four sections, the text provides concise information for field use along with reproducible worksheets for crime scene investigators. It includes visual representations of the scientific equipment used to clandestinely produce drugs and explosives and presents a list of the chemicals commonly encountered in clandestine laboratories. Field Guide to Clandestine Laboratory Identification and Investigation also provides information about chemical hazards, the personal protective equipment required, and proper processing of the lab site for the physical evidence necessary for prosecution. Buy it on Amazon.Com

Donnell Christian - Forensic Investigation of Clandestine Laboratories (Hard Cover)

Clandestine lab operators are not the mad scientists whose genius keeps them pent up in the laboratory contemplating elaborate formulas and mixing exotic chemicals. In fact, their equipment is usually simple, their chemicals household products, and their education basic. Most of the time the elements at the scene are perfectly legal to sell and own. It is only in the combination of all these elements that the lab becomes the scene of a criminal operation. Forensic Investigation of Clandestine Laboratories guides you, step-by-step, through the process of recognizing these illegal manufacturing operations. Then it shows you how to prove it in the courtroom. In non-technical language this book details: How to recognize a clandestine lab How to process the site of a clandestine lab How to analyze evidence in the examination laboratory What to derive from the physical evidence How to present the evidence in court The identification and investigation a clandestine lab, and the successful prosecution the perpetrators, is a team effort. A collaboration of law enforcement, forensic experts, scientists, and criminal prosecutors is required to present a case that definitively demonstrates how a group of items with legitimate uses are being used to manufacture an illegal controlled substance. Forensic Investigation of Clandestine Laboratories provides you with the information needed to understand how the different pieces of the clandestine lab puzzle fit together and take the steps to not only identify and shut down these operations, but also successfully prosecute the perpetrators. Buy it on Amazon

Donnell Christian & Stephanie Drilling - Implementing Quality in Laboratory Policies and Processes: Using Templates, Project Management, and Six Sigma (International Forensic Science and Investigation) (Hardcover).

Written by an expert with global experience in setting up laboratories, this work provides templates for the various policies, procedures, and forms that should be contained in the quality assurance manual of a laboratory seeking accreditation. It also includes a criteria file which cross-references individual document templates to corresponding accreditation criterion associated with ISO 17025. Originally developed for use in forensic laboratories, this material meets the standards of ISO 17025 and therefore has international applications for all laboratories.

In addition to providing quality templates for the laboratory seeking 17025 accreditation, the book also contains templates covering every policy and procedure required of a laboratory. Additionally, the book provides step-by-step processes and best practices for initiating, planning, executing, and controlling projects, as well as those needed to develop policy and procedure in the laboratory using the ISO certified project management methodology. It is also the first to employ Six Sigma in a forensic laboratory. Buy it on Amazon