On the Job 

BCI has deployed five 3D laser scanners around the state to help investigators better document complex crime scenes. Each scanner sits on a tripod and rotates 360 degrees, taking millions of precise laser measurements and hundreds of digital photos. The result is a video that can carry viewers — including investigators, prosecutors, and jurors — through a crime scene.
 
For use primarily in homicide and officer-involved shooting investigations, the scanners are strategically located around the state — in Mercer, Clark, Muskingum, Lake, and Tuscarawas counties —  to make them available quickly throughout Ohio.
 
Special agents with BCI’s Crime Scene Unit have used the 3D laser scanner technology about a dozen times so far, including as part of the investigation into the June murder of a Cleveland Heights bar owner. To view a news story on the scanner’s role, visit Fox8.com and search for “A look inside Brennan’s Colony.”
 
BCI agents also now use iPads equipped with CrimePad crime scene management software that allows them to efficiently record information, print labels for evidence and inventory sheets, and pre-log evidence with the lab, all while still at a crime scene. 
 
“Both the scanners and CrimePads are some of the latest technology out there for crime scene investigations,” Special Agent Supervisor Dan Winterich said.
 
For details
 
For more information, call BCI at 855-BCI-OHIO (855-224-6446).