Policing and crime detection rely on a combination of careful examination, hard work, logic and, increasingly, forensic sciences. One of the most important advances in crime detection was the so called ‘Murder Bag’.
Equipped with everything needed to collect evidence, it became vital to scene of crime officers. The murder bag was put together in 1924 as a response to the very basic conditions that the police were working in. Before that time, little specialised equipment was used at the scene of a crime. But a gruesome murder was directly responsible for changing this.
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