COVER STORY
» The duties and responsibilities of a crime scene investigator –
collecting and examining evidence, checking “background records” and
using deductive reasoning – can be adapted by vehicle maintenance
personnel to help to identify the reason (a condition or a chain of
events) that resulted in a component failure or a vehicle breakdown.
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Maintenance
Management
Lessons From
Crime Scene
Investigations
Crime scene processing
techniques can be adopted to
enhance vehicle maintenance
and reliability eff orts
W ho doesn’t like a good murder mystery, especially
when a crime scene investigator becomes involved
and helps detectives get to the bottom of the
case? Th e investigator processes the crime scene
through an organized approach and examines the
evidence for clues. Th en, like Sherlock Holmes –
the fi ctitious detective who practiced forensic
science and criminal profi ling years ahead of the
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rest of the world – employs deductive reasoning
to reach a conclusion about who done it.
Th e entire crime scene investigation (CSI) is
accomplished within one television program,
movie or novel. Impressive, but absurd.
In reality, solving a crime – especially a gruesome
murder – is an eff ort that takes a considerable
By David A. Kolman , Editor