Metal Detecting Article in "EVIDENCE" Magazine

[Trooper733]

I got my copy of Evidence magazine today in the mail, and the cover story is about Metal Detectors at the crime scene. I used my own detector several times at crime scenes, especially shooting scenes to use in the recovery of brass casings, and bullet fragments. Also, a couple of times we used them searching for weapons ditched after the commission of a crime. The OHP bought a Garrett Gtac 2500 for crime scene use, which wasn't a good choice in my opinion for use by someone without any knowledge of the use of a detector. I finally donated one of my old Tesoro turn on and go detectors for those guys without experience. If you would like to read the article, let me know and I will email it to you. I don't want to put anything more than the cover on this site, due to copyright infringement issues.
Mark

 

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[deepsecrets]

Thanks for the heads up on the article - good read.

Link also here: Evidence Technology Magazine - Successful Ground Searching: Metal Detectors and the Crime Scene

 

[Trooper733]

Thanks for adding the link. I actually forgot about the digital edition

 

[Jason in Enid]

Thanks for the link. I remember seeing an old Whites eagle in our PD CSI room and thinking," geeze, do they have anyone who even knows how to run that thing?" But I wasnt about to donate mine to them, LOL!

 

[Trooper733]

It must have been in a weak moment!! LOL it was a silver umax if I remember right. It had a power/sensitivity knob, a discrimination level knob, and a disc/all metal switch. I think that was it unless it had ground balance too, cant remember. Trust me I got to take the state owned Garrett out for "testing and training" quite a bit. LOL I think my personal MD was a Whites Classic ID at that time.