The Smoking Gun

The Smoking Gun - How surface metrology reveals the finest forensic details

Dr Katie Adinall explains how Forensic science plays a vital role in the criminal justice system by providing scientifically based information through the analysis of physical evidence. During an investigation, the evidence is collected at a crime scene or from a person, analyzed in a crime laboratory and then the results are presented in court. Surface metrology (the science of measurement) can be used to study surfaces for the finest of physical details. This finest of information can be used to show how a surface was generated.