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A new member has joined the Duncan Police Department Investigation Unit, but she isnt new to policing the streets.

Lori Adams, who served as the Evidence and Property Custodian for DPD, now takes on the position of Crime Scene Investigative Technician. Shes seen more accomplishments than that this year though; she also took home the City of Duncan Employee of the Year Award.

When the opportunity was presented to me, I knew this was a challenge I wanted to accept and I am looking forward to the training and experiences ahead, Adams said. I work with an outstanding support system and feel very honored for the confidence this department places into me.

The position change stemmed from ongoing budget cuts, Police Chief Danny Ford said.

According to Ford, Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation might have to pull some of their staffing from the area, including in divisions related to criminal investigations. This was the best decision to handle the money troubles, officials said.

Capt. Joe Shoemake said, Having Lori fill this position will benefit the investigations division by allowing our team to begin any investigation while she is able to process, collect and secure evidence at the scene.

The position for Adams will become fully functioning within the next year, officials say, and shes expected to help streamline the evidence collection process. Previously, Adams was sent to a three-week crime scene investigation technical school, DPD states.

She received training in evidence collection, fingerprinting, photography, blood spatter, search methods, diagraming and other subjects pertaining to the duties required in the CSI Tech Position, states a press release.

Adams began with DPD as a dispatcher in 2003, but shes off to Academy next to obtain her Cleet Reserve Certification.

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Fans of NCIS would love a chance to engage with the characters of the show, even if it was just taking a selfie with a wax figure looking like Mark Harmon. This aspect of being a devoted NCIS viewer is the sign of a well written TV show. The viewers desire to escape the real world to fight crime and help put the bad guys away (even if it is only for an hour).

This NCIS loyalty got me thinking this week about NCIS and the future of the show. It is possible that this famed CBS show will ever get a fan attraction like CSI: Crime Scene Investigation has in Las Vegas? With the attraction called CSI: The Experience, viewers of the show get to play a crime scene investigator and check out two state-of-the-art forensic crime labs. If youve gone, you know the special effects are amazing. And its like you are in the middle of the TV showno really!

Giving props to each series respectively, the CBS shows have diehard fans. They continueoffering up new episodes that just keep getting better and the writers have done a great job keeping up with new technology to make crime solving even more interesting. However, the biggest difference is CSI fans were crushed when the show ended, while the NCIS series has continued to grow strongriding high with new episodes. The Vegas attraction is very popular, so creating an attraction highlighting the best of NCIS could also be extremely popular.

It was in 2000 that CSI hit the airwaves and NCIS started only three years later. Both CBS shows have impacted the way the world looks at the men and women who solve crimes. Add that NCIS honors the armed services. It could be argued this show deserves an attraction too. The attention given to the real NCIS agents who work their beats and find justice for victims would be awesome too. If that isnt enough, then who wouldnt be willing to shell out a few bucks for a selfie standing next to Mark Harmon? See, I told you a NCIS attraction would be a great idea!

This column was written by Jodi Jill and if youre looking for more then be sure to head on over to the link here.Also, you canfollow her on Facebook and Twitter! (Photo: CBS.)

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FAIRMONT, W.Va. (WDTV) -- Fairmont State University Criminal Justice students recently took top honors at the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences/Alpha Phi Sigma National Conference in Kansas City, Mo. In fact, Fairmont State will be known as the Alpha Phi Sigma National Office for the next two years because three FSU students won the national election for the presidential slate of the organization and will serve a two-year term as its national officers.

The new national officers are Samuel Hamilton, President; Morganne Phillips, Secretary; and Phillip Sands, Treasurer. A student from the University of Maryland Eastern Shore will serve as Vice President.

As the chapter advisor to Alpha Phi Sigma, Im very pleased to announce that Fairmont State University students won the national election. The students will be involved in recruiting new chapters, maintaining communication with more than 300 chapters nationwide and planning the next two national conferences that will be held in New Orleans and Baltimore, said Dr. Deanna Shields, Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and advisor to FSUs Epsilon Iota chapter of Alpha Phi Sigma, the National Criminal Justice Honor Society.

The FSU chapter also won first place in the T-shirt design competition, the Star Chapter Award given by the National Headquarters and the Outstanding Chapter for Leadership Award presented by a panel of judges at the conference.

FSUs students consistently perform well in the national crime scene competition. Last year the FSU team won first place in the crime scene competition over teams from 16 other schools.

Because FSU has won so many times, they have now what they call the Fairmont rule. If a team wins one year, they cant compete the next, said crime scene investigation coach Dr. John McLaughlin.

This year the FSU crime scene investigation students developed, administered and judged the entire crime scene competition.

With the assistance of Dr. John McLaughlin, the crime scene competition was a tremendous success, Shields said.

The FSU team is comprised of the following students: Nick Brown, Brittiany Brummage, Olivia Eubanks, Samuel Hamilton, Thairon Holler, Bailey Kershner, Emily Markham, Amber Miller, Abby Palmer, Julian Pecora, Morganne Phillips, Jamie Riddell, Sarita Robinson, Phillip Sands and William Siegler.

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There was confusion in Shepherd's Bush last night (Thursday March 30) as camera crews were spotted filming people in crime scene investigation suits at the same time as a real police incident.

Hammersmith and Fulham police tweeted at around 6.30pm to say that lanes around the green were closed because of an incident.

At the same time, passers-by saw film crews and cameras as well as people dressed in protective clothing worn during crime scene investigations.

People on social media suggested the filming was for a BBC drama called Hard Sun a pre-apocalyptic crime drama set in modern day London.

The series is by Neil Cross, the creator of the Idris Elba crime drama Luther, and will be filmed across the capital.

It stars Jim Sturgess and Agyness Deyn and is expected to air later this year.

According to one report on social media, filming at Shepherd's Bush will continue today (March 31).

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Joe Kulkosky, Ph.D., works with Julia Bacon-Henderson after the students cultured bacteria from various lab surfaces as an investigator would do at a crime scene. (Photo by Brenda Lange)

By Leslie Feldman

Crime scene investigation (CSI) is hotter than ever. Just count how many CSI shows there are on television. And now Chestnut Hill College is offering students, grades 5 through 12, a chance to learn about how their favorite detectives use science to figure out seemingly unsolvable thefts, arsons, mysteries and more.

Returning for its fourth year, Chestnut Hill Colleges (CHC) Forensic Sciences Summer Camp, led by Joe Kulkosky, Ph.D., professor and chair, Department of Biology, offers campers the chance to learn how to collect and analyze crime scene evidence such as serology, toxicology entomology, odontology and trace evidence. It also provides students who uniformly give the course an A+ hands-on experiences in several professional techniques such as DNA typing, fingerprint classification, fabric and shoe print pattern comparisons and blood type testing.

Kulkosky says the idea for the camp came from high school students and their parents at open house campus visits asking questions and wanting information about the colleges Forensic Biology undergraduate degree program. Students interested in forensics are really into the topic, and I thought it would be neat if students at a younger age, considering a college degree program, could have a hands-on summer experience in forensic methods to see if it really was a career path for them.

According to an article by Brenda Lange in the latest issue of the CHC Magazine, Cole Angstadt is a 12-year-old who loves science. He calls it the coolest subject and was thrilled to be part of CHCs Forensic Sciences Camp last summer. NCIS is his favorite TV show, and working with and learning about some of the same equipment from the show was fun and unique.

On the show, they use a thermometer that determines the time of death, and in the camp we watched a slideshow about it, Angstadt said. His favorite part of the weeklong program was the use of micro pipettes. They measure precise amounts of liquids and are more sophisticated than a glass or plastic dropper.

Using microscopes, taking fingerprints and footprints, measuring blood splatters and learning what they mean, doing DNA and blood type testing are all part of the collection and analysis of crime scene evidence that culminates on the last day of the camp with students solving the crime who killed Dr. K.?

Coles father, Tom, said his son was at the camp because he wanted to be there, and he had to drag him away at the end of the day. He was very engaged, and it was a great place to expand his mind.

Kulkosky, a resident of Wyncote, spent most of his scientific career, over 30 years, in hard-core basic and medical research as a molecular biologist at Cornell Medical Center, Fox Chase Cancer Center and Thomas Jefferson University. He had the opportunity to teach a biotechnology course in the adult division at CHC several years ago and liked teaching and the environment so much, he decided to jump at the opportunity to apply for a faculty position at the college. He is also choir director/organist at All Saints Episcopal Church.

I know of no other forensic summer camp for high-school or middle school students in the area that offers such a specific forensic summer camp experience, said Kulkosky. CHC is also the only institution in the state of Pennsylvania to offer dual undergraduate degrees in forensics.

Favorite activities at the camp include isolating their own cheek cell DNA, simple blood splatter experiments using synthetic blood samples and solving Who killed Dr. K, where they review many samples of evidence relating to the murder of Dr. K.

The students really like hands-on activities, said Kulkosky. Ive been somewhat surprised at how adept they are at understanding scientific concepts and using fairly sophisticated scientific equipment. The kids who attend the camp almost always have an intrinsic interest in science, so they are really engaged in the topics and experiments. They also very much enjoy the intimate interaction with each other in our labs. They come from different schools, so they engage in a lot of conversation with each other about whats going on in each of their own schools.

For middle school students, the camp session runs from July 24 to 28. For high school students, the camp session runs from August 7 to 11. All sessions run from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. daily.

For more information or to register, visit https://www.chc.edu/forensic-sciences-summer-camp

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