Case Studies
Showing how material from crime scenes can be linked to criminal activity in different force areas.

Police in Knowsley arrested five people for drugs and firearms offences following raids on Tuesday morning (30 June).
Local officers executed search warrants at two houses in Huyton as part ...
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Essex Police have launched a murder investigation following the death of a 64-year-old man in South Weald, Brentwood.
Officers were called just before 6.30pm on Wednesday, June 24, 2015 by the a...
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NABIS, the National Ballistics Intelligence Service, feature in a BBC4 TV programme tomorrow night (2 July).
Catching History's Criminals: The Forensics Story is a three part series ...
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Detectives are appealing for information and witnesses after a man was shot in Goodmayes.
Police were called to the shooting in Green Lane, Goodmayes at 05.49hrs on Wednesday, 1 July.
A man ...
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A major exercise to test the emergency services and Government response to a terrorist attack will be held in central London over the next two days.
Starting today, Tuesday, 30 June, the exerci...
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A man has been charged with murder following a fatal shooting in Lambeth.
Shaden Cadette, 23 (18.06.92) of Marcella Road, SW9 was charged on Saturday, 27 June with the murder of 24-year-old Ogarra ...
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Detectives are appealing for information after a man needed surgery when he was shot in the leg at a Smethwick park on Friday( 26 June).
Police were called just after 7.15pm to reports that th...
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Crimestoppers are today putting up a reward of up to £12,000 for information on the murder of Seacroft dad Adam Chadwick.
They originally offered up to £5,000 in January...
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Two men found guilty of murdering teenager Charlie Wright in Greenwich have been jailed for a total of 70 years.
On Tuesday, 23 June, at the Old Bailey, two men have been sentenced for ...
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Two men have been found guilty of murdering a teenager in Greenwich in 2010.
Charlie Wright, 17, a student from Eltham, was shot in Calvert Road, SE10.
At the Old Bailey on Monday, 22 June, ...
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The Head of NABIS has visited colleagues at Europol to learn more about the important work going on there to crack gun crime.
Europol is the European Union's law enforcement agency which aims ...
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Police were called at approximately 15:10hrs on Sunday, 21 June, to reports of shots fired at a car in the vicinity of Gloucester Terrace, W2.
The car - a black Range Rover - subse...
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Merseyside Police is investigating after shots were fired in Dovecot in the early hours of Sunday morning (21 June).
No-one was injured but damage was caused to the front of a house.
T...
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Two men have been jailed today, Thursday, 18 June, for importing firearms into the United Kingdom.
As part of an intelligence-led police operation, officers saw one of the men, a lorry driver...
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Detectives from Trident, investigating a shooting at a barber's shop in Rotherhithe New Road, SE16 on 8 May; have made an arrest.
A 38-year old woman suffered an injury to her leg during the i...
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