how many crimes have you ever solved,also when have you ever seen a crime happen like a stolen car or a shop robbery,or

Question: how many crimes have you ever solved,also when have you ever seen a crime happen like a stolen car or a shop robbery,or a purse or wallet robbery or even in a jewelery store and what was the lonbgest case youve ever has since working as a forensic scientist??????
- Keywords:
  crime,
  criminal,
  difficulty,
  witness
Asked by anon-345104 on 28 Jan 2023.
- Charlie Frowd answered on 28 Jan 2023:
  
  Part of my job is to provide forensic tools for police practitioners. The EvoFIT facial composite system I helped to design (for creating the face of a criminal from eyewitness memory) that I spoke about on the Ri lecture this year has an identification of about 60% and is used about 500 times a year. So, overall, there are lots of successes, and about 30% of these cases have sufficient evidence for a reliable conviction. Some cases are solved quickly, some take much longer of course. There was one case I was involved in (as a forensic practitioner) where the crime too place 20 years ago but the composite produced led to identification a couple of years ago, and so sometimes it can take a long time!
- Sue Black answered on 28 Jan 2023:
  
  I have worked on the postmortem examination of hundreds of cases but I have never witnessed a crime being committed. My longest case is still ongoing – the lady went missing in 1977 and we are still trying to find her. Cold cases do not close until they are solved.
- Ray Evans answered on 30 Jan 2023:
  
  Unlike the tv drama programs, most forensic scientists help to solve a crime as part of a varied team of people.
  And no, I’ve never seen a crime in action.
  The longest case I’ve ever worked on took place over a ten year period.
- Richard Case answered on 31 Jan 2023:
  
  I have assisted in hundreds of investigations. I cannot say whether my evidence alone solved the crimes, as the evidence can be from a variety of sources.
  I have only ever witnessed assaults, never a theft of robbery.
  A lot of crimes go unsolved or take a long time to resolve, and there were cases I would revisit over a number of years, if there was a new suspect or improved technology
- Lorna Dawson answered on 31 Jan 2023:
  
  last time, I witnessed an attack on a train and the BTP dealt with it and I had to be a witness and submit my phone for analysis (of the video I took). Its important to be the community eyes and ears but first and foremost don’t put yourself in any danger.
- Katy Bruce answered on 3 Feb 2023:
  
  To answer your first and last questions, I’ve personally never solved any crimes as I’m a researcher.
  
  To answer your second question, when I was 11 years old my best friend and I were cycling back from my house to hers (just down the road). It was about 3pm and on a bright sunny day. She crossed the road in front of me at the end of my driveway (I lived in a rural area so the road was usually quiet but it did have a 60 mph speed limit unfortunately) and a split second later she was hit by a car.
  
  I’ll never forget it and still sometimes have flashbacks about it. She was catapulted into the air and the driver fled the scene. When I ran over to her she was unresponsive and her bike had been bent in half (it actually saved her life). She was rushed to A&E in an ambulance, the road was cordoned off, CSIs and collision investigators arrived, and I was interviewed by various police officers in my kitchen. It was a very surreal experience.
  
  My friend is ok now, thankfully, but unfortunately the hit-and-run driver was never found (and never handed themselves in either). It still really upsets me that I didn’t get a better view of the car’s headlights (with the speed it was travelling it happened in the blink of an eye) and that with the cloud of dust the car kicked up as it sped away I couldn’t visualise the plate either. I never did find out what the collision investigators concluded from the scene but the long tyre skid marks were present on the road outside my house for months to come…😔