2011 IFPI AGM

The 2011 IFPI Annual General Meeting was held on Saturday, 27 August at Rationalist House, 64 Symonds Street, Auckland.

Prior to the AGM Sean Doyle, Andrew McGregor, Anna Sandiford and Warren Thomas gave presentations.

Dr Peter Cropp stood down as President, having held the position for the maximum duration of three consecutive years and Professor Glynn Owens was elected to fill the role of President. All other committee members were re-elected to their previous positions.

A good proportion of the AGM attendees went to the post-AGM dinner at Moo Chow Chow, 23 Ponsonby Road.

Andrew McGregor giving his presentation on the mysterious past of a fishing vessel.

NEWS

IFPI MEMBERS IN THE NEWS & MEDIA:

(Note: The opinions of individual IFPI members do not reflect any stance or position held by the IFPI)

Dr Arie Geursen

The Court Report: Science and Innovation Special (Chapter 3, The Court Report, TVNZ 7, 25 August 2011)

Dr Anna Sandiford

CSI real life expert talks about her book (Breakfast: Tuesday May 24, TVNZ One, June 2011)

Is it like CSI? (Acquitalk, September 2010)

Science in the Courtroom (The Court Report Episode 11, TVNZ 7, September 2010)

Drugs and alcohol causing havoc on our roads (RadioLive, August 2010)

Crime sleuths separate forensics (NZ Herald, July 2010)

Dr Nick Powell

The importance of testing clandestine drug labs (Discussion with Jena Dyco Director Jenny Boymal, July 2010)

Kevin Sturgeon

The Case Against Robin Bain (TVNZ One, July 2010)

(Approx 2m 40s from start of Part 3 - Fingerprints on firearm)

IFPI MEMBERS IN NZ LAWYER MAGAZINE:

Dr Anna Sandiford

Sifting through the evidence (March 2009)

Smoked and burned (November 2009)

Dr Robin Watt

More than just bones (March 2010)

Please send any news items of interest to the Webmaster via the Contacts page.

EVENTS

2010 IFPI AGM

The 2010 IFPI AGM was held on 25 September in Auckland.

Interesting and informative presentations were given by Liz McKenzie (Persistence of methamphetamine after cleaning of dwellings formerly used as clandestine laboratories), Andrew McGregor (Investigation of Devon aircraft accident), Nick Powell (Terminal ballistics of .22LR projectiles in human tissue simulant) and Peter Burridge (Fingerprints, forensics & training opportunities). Anna Sandiford informed us of happenings at the CBA conference in Queenstown, the ANZFSS Symposium in Sydney and also of the transition of Forensic Science & Research Ltd into The Forensic Group.

Nick Powell chaired the second session where members gave their impressions of the ANFSS Symposium.

At the AGM itself Anna Sandiford was elected IFPI secretary. Many thanks and much appreciation is due to Nick Powell for his impressive tenure as Secretary. Nick did not seek re-election as Secretary because of an ever-increasing workload at Forensic & Industrial Science.

WEBSITE UPDATES

Note: It was not possible to modify the IFPI website between December 2010 and 13 May 2011 due to the website host (www.dotnetltd.com) being placed into voluntary liquidation. The IFPI website is now being hosted by MediaMill (www.mediamill.co.nz)

13-05-11

(a) Added 2011 AGM notification.

(b) Updated IFPI members list.

02-08-10

(a) Added AGM info.

(b) Updated IFPI brochure to 2010 version.

15-06-10

(a) Added two committee member photos.

10-06-10

(a) Added notification of 2010 AGM.

(b) Updated News and Events.

17-12-09

(a) Added 'Brochure request' option on 'Contact' page.

07-09-09

(a) Updated AGM info and posted some images from the AGM.

14-07-09

(a) Updated 'Forensic Categories' page (added 'Forensic Accounting').

27-06-09

(a) Added AGM Notice.

(b) Added member to 'Members List'

04-05-09
(a) Added two photos to website frontpage.

23-04-09 & 24-04-09

(a) Added photos to 'Forensic Categories' page - thanks to Naomi Hosted and Dr Anna Sandiford for the images.

15-04-09

(a) Updated Committee member profiles

17-03-09  

(a) The web-hosting provider for the IFPI suffered a malicious attack on 16-03-09. Our site has now been placed on a new server based from a backup created in Febuary. The more recent updates have therefore been lost. These will be replaced shortly.
(b) Created links to unique pages on 'Member Publications' for each member with publications listed.

19-02-09

(a) Minor revisions to text on 'Forensic Categories' page.

14-03-09  

(a) Added new categories on 'Forensic Categories' page. Many thanks to Dr Anna Sandiford for providing the material
(b) Tidied the order of the categories, i.e. put them back into alphabetical

19-02-09  

(a) Added a 'Links' page

(b) Fixed site rendering error (Internet Explorer only) following update on 14-02-09

14-02-09  

(a) Link to a copy of the Code of Conduct for expert witnesses added to "Membership" page.
(b) Dead/broken links removed from "Member Publications"