CBRN forensics

Ed van Zalen
Programme manager CBRN

NCT: CBRNe Asia 2012

Bangkok, 5 September 2012

NFI and Field Lab

P.O. Box 24044

2490 AA The Hague
Laan van Ypenburg 6
2497 GB The Hague
The Netherlands
Agency
of the
Ministry
T +31 70 888 6 888
of www.forensicinstitute.nl
Justice

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 NFI provides

high quality forensic services

with state-of-the-art technology and science

on behalf of clients

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Key Figures NFI
700 90
625 80 85,000
600
70
500
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400 50
Staff 40 Cases
300
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15 %
Case Work

15 % R&D

Knowledge
Transfer
70 %

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Customers

PROSECUTION International Courts

POLICE - International Criminal Court
Magistrates - Former Yugoslavia
- Sierra Leone
- Libanon

Government Agencies
for example:
-MoD United Nations
-National Coordinator for
Counterterrorism
- Secret Services
- Competition Authority
- Customs Intl. Forensic Institutes
- Tax Service
- Integration and
Naturalisation Service

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 Executive
Board

DNA Support
Database Staff

Human Digital Physics & NFI

Pathology & Micro
Front Office Biological Technology & Narcotics Chemical Academy
Toxicology Traces
Traces Biometry Technology

Incident Mobile
CBRN forensics Forensic
Response Forensic KECIDA Field
Team Team Lab

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CBRN forensics

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 What happened?

What was the cause?

Who did it?

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CBRN forensics workflow
SCENARIO’S
- malicious acts by criminals and terrorists
- dirty bomb
- industrial accidents

S
T CRIME SCENE INVESTIGATION
E A -procedures
D N - chain of custody
U D - safety/ personal protective equipment
C A - sampling strategies
A R - sampling
T D - investigation on site
I I - decontamination of exhibits
- packaging and transport
Chemical Agents
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E TRADITIONAL FORENSIC INVESTIGATION
T N
N on contaminated exhibits
R
S - DNA profiling
A /
I - latent fingerprints
I
C - retrieving and analyzing digital data
N Q
I U - Disater Victim Identification
T L
N A
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Y CBRN FORENSIC INVESTGATION
O E
E Profiling:
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C-agents
- identification of the agent
Q
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Biological Agents
R S - precursors I
C U -metabolites R
I R B-agents E
S A - identification of the agent M
E N - genomics E
C - toxins N
E R-agents (e.g. Co, Cs, ..) T
- identification S
- chemical profiling
N-agents (e.g. U, Pu, ..)
- categorizing
- characterizing
- aging
- chemical profiling

Radioactive and Nuclear Agents

Figure 1. CBRN forensic investigation
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Crime Scene

first responders

fire brigade

medical assistance

how about
forensics?

-collaboration
-forensic awareness

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Operational Calamity Team
• 24/7 national response at calamities
• CBRNe international forensic response

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OCT working procedure

assignment Management NFI

forensic advisor
Forensic response
safety expert
teamleader
-safety assessment safety guard
-sampling strategy
-on site investigation
-chain of custody
PPE PPE PPE
-packaging &
transport
clean man, dirty man, observer procedure

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Traditional forensics

• Decontamination of exhibits
• DNA-analysis
latent fingerprints
digital data carriers
toolmarks
….
• Disaster Victim Identification

Profile

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DVI

Identification method for 500 victims

• DNA-analysis
• Anthropological methods.
• use of pedigrees

2010 plain crash Tripoli, Lybia

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CBRN forensics

Chemical agents
•Chemical Warfare agents
•Toxic Industrial Chemicals
•Explosives

Matrices:
•Human tissue and blood
•Environmental samples
•chemicals

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CBRN forensics

Biological agents
• Micro array screening
• DNA sequencing
• Bio moleculen (MS)

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Forensics in Nuclear Security

REQUEST FOR WHITE PAPER

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Forensics
LAW in Nuclear Security
ENFORCEMENT

NFI PROJECT:
FORENSICS IN NUCLEAR SECURITY

Deliverables:

1. Nuclear Forensics Lexicon

2. Survey best practices
3. Education and training
curriculum

@tomic 2012
International Table Top Exercise
26-29 november 2012, The Hague

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Training and education NFI Academy

-Forensic hazmat training

-(multi)disciplinary training and
exercises for (inter)national
Operational Forensic Teams
-Serious gaming (forensic awareness)
-CSI Lab: Human factors
-reconstructions

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EU-developments

Framework 7 programme, DG Enterprise EU

• PRACTICE
Preparedness and resilience against CBRN terrorism using
integrated concepts and equipments

• MIRACLE
Feasibility study for the development of a mobile CBRN laboratory

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Challenges

Multi disciplinary approach incident response

Development of:
• on-site DNA profiling “lab on a chip”
• on-site sampling robots for forensic traces
• profiling toxins
• profiling of radiological materials

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Challenges

Forensic investigation as a prevention tool

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Innovation Network

Industry Forensic Institutes

Research Universities
Centres

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Innovation Network

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 Questions?

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 CBRN Forensics
Sharing Knowledge

for information see

www.forensicinstitute.nl
www.nuclearforensics.nl
or contact
e.van.zalen@nfi.minvenj.nl

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