✍ Scribed by N. NicDaeid
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Scotland has a long and rich history in crime detection from the creation of fictional detectives such as Sherlock Holmes in 1887 by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and inspired by Dr. Joseph Bell, a lecturer at the medical school at Edinburgh University, to the development and delivery of modern high class international research, training and casework. Holmes incorporated some of the important skills of modern day forensic science in terms of using observation and deductive reasoning in his deliberations. More modern authors such as Ian Rankin (Rebus), Val McDermid (Wire in the Blood), and Alexander McCall (No. 1 ladies detective agency) are keeping the rich Scottish literary tradition in crime solving alive and well.
Scotland has always had a high position in both the delivery of forensic practice to the criminal justice system as well as the delivery of high quality teaching, training and research in a wide range of forensic sciences and related fields, (Henry Faulds was a student at Strathclyde University in Glasgow for example). Scottish Universities and research institutions have developed and delivered forensic sciences in various guises at the highest level to meet the requirements of police and the legal profession in the pursuit of justice.
Examples include organisations such as the Joseph Bell Centre for Forensic Statistics and Legal Reasoning, the Centre for Anatomy and Human Identification at the University of Dundee, The Centre for Forensic Science at Strathclyde University, the Macaulay Institute in Aberdeen and the section for Forensic Science and Medicine at Glasgow University. Some of these groups are also heavily involved in the development of policy and practice with police, legislators and government working collaboratively towards the future.
It is thus right and fitting that this year Glasgow hosted three important forensic science meetings promoting knowledge transfer and the development of an excellence agenda for the improvement of our professional practice across a range of spheres. In March, Glasgow
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