SOCO visit

Today we had a visit from SOCO - the scene of crime officer - called Neil. He came in to talk to us all about how the police deal with a crime scene like the one we found in our classroom. Even though ours was a 'staged' crime scene, Neil talked about the fact that there was lots of evidence to look at.

He showed us a board with fingerprint samples on it as well as shoeprints and some ideas about what DNA is. We looked at the Coke can that the victim left at our crime scene and Neil explained how DNA would be extracted from the can. He also showed us how he dusts for fingerprints and then he used one of our students to take some fingerprints off. We pretended that Dylan had climbed in the window and was the bad guy while Dylan planted his fingers on the side of the window. It was great fun to watch how quickly Neil was able to get a copy of the fingerprints (which he gave to Dylan!) and how the fingerprints could be identified.

Tomorrow we have to interview our 3 prime suspects for our class crime scene. We have already been SOCO officers and now it's time to deduce!