DATE & TIME: Tuesday 15th of May 2012
@13h00

VENUE: Wolfson Pavilion Lecture Theatre
IIDMM, UCT, Faculty of Health Sciences

CPD ACCREDITED
ALL WELCOME

Enquiries: Latiefa Jattiem
Email: Latiefa.Jattiem@uct.ac.za
Tel: 021-406 6297

The activation will take place on Tuesday, 15th May 2012 between 6am – 8am at the Cape Town Train Station and will show how the lack of proper preservation of a crime scene can destroy valuable evidence and the chance of a conviction.  The video of the activation will be posted on YouTube and sent to media soon thereafter.

The activation will consist of a large (8m x 6m) sand box filled with tiny stones of various colours depicting a mug shot of a convict holding up an ID board.  This box will be placed in the busy open hall area of the Cape Town Metrorail station.  Commuters will be encouraged to walk over the box, thus blurring the mug shot and making it increasingly difficult to see the convicts’ face.  The idea gets the public involved in demonstrating how disturbing a crime scene can prevent criminals from being identified.

Commuters walking over the box and disturbing the image will be captured using time-lapse video, and edited into a viral which will be played at high speed in under one minute and used in a viral campaign over the social media network to spread awareness.

Please come down to the station to support this important initiative.

Vanessa Lynch

Molecular biology has a growing role to play in this important field of forensic testing. Molecular methods yield additional information that can be crucial to resolving cases. This information can include:

Confirmation of arthropod species identity
Estimation of larval age
Details of post-mortem movement
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The webinar features a case study that illustrates the application of these methods to forensic examination. Join us to learn more.

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Date:
Tuesday, May 8

Place:
From your desktop

Time:
11:00 a.m. EDST / 5 p.m. CEST
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Duration:
1 hour

Cost:
No attendance fee

The DNA Project is a registered non-profit, public benefit organization that recognizes the critical importance of DNA evidence in the resolution of crime.

Their mission is to raise crime scene awareness and the importance of preserving DNA evidence, and in 2011 they combined forces with FoxP2 and created ‘The Cigarette that saves lives’ to promote this.

This year, to support the message of the TVC the creative team at FoxP2 conceptualized an activation to represent the loss and damage that first on crime scene responders as well as the general public can affect to evidence left at a crime scene.

The activation will take place on Wednesday, 9th May 2012 between 6am – 8am at the Cape Town Train Station and will show how the lack of proper preservation of a crime scene can destroy valuable evidence and the chance of a conviction.  The video of the activation will be posted on YouTube and sent to media soon thereafter.

The activation will consist of a large (8m x 6m) sand box filled with tiny stones of various colours depicting a mug shot of a convict holding up an ID board.  This box will be placed in the busy open hall area of the Cape Town Metrorail station.  Commuters will be encouraged to walk over the box, thus blurring the mug shot and making it increasingly difficult to see the convicts’ face.  The idea gets the public involved in demonstrating how disturbing a crime scene can prevent criminals from being identified.

Commuters walking over the box and disturbing the image will be captured using time-lapse video, and edited into a viral which will be played at high speed in under one minute and used in a viral campaign over the social media network to spread awareness.

If you would like to attend this activation please email Kelly@foxpr.co.za to confirm.

Issued by:                  Kelly Dido

079 915 3468

kelly@foxpr.co.za

On behalf of:              The DNA Project

http://dnaproject.co.za/

Our very own “DNA Detective”, Prof. Valerie Corfield will be hosting daily DNA CSI Workshops at Scifest Africa 2012 between 14h00 – 15h00 @ the Monument Council Chamber, Grahamstown (Appropriate for Grade 10+)
Learn how to be a CSI detective and the important ways to preserve DNA evidence.

NB: Rape and violent deaths, the nature of crime scenes, and the type of DNA evidence collected at crime scenes, will be discussed sensitively, but frankly, in this workshop. Therefore, we ask that parents, guardians and educators ensure that learners have received sufficient basic sex education and have been warned about the content of the workshop. The workshop is not suitable for any learners under the age of 16 years, and the decision to allow any learner to attend, should be made in this context.

Scifest Africa is South Africa’s National Science Festival and aims to promote the public awareness and engagement with science, technology, engineering, mathematics and innovation (STEMI).

The project consists of two components, namely the annual week-long National Science Festival held in Grahamstown in March every year, as well as a range of local, regional and national outreach programmes implemented around the country throughout the rest of the year.

Scifest Africa 2012 will take place in Grahamstown, Eastern Cape from 14-20 March 2012 and we invite you to join us and make this the festival that rocks all festivals.

The theme for Scifest Africa 2012 is “Science rocks!” and will explore Earth sciences, archaeology, palaeontology, astrobiology, GIS, chemical and civil engineering, music… and any other -ology or -graphy you can think of that has anything to do with rocks.

Download the Scifest Africa 2012 programme here.

This  invitation  is  open  to  all  Clinical  Forensic  Examiners  (Medical   Officers  and  Sexual  Assault  Nurse  Examiners),  nurses  who  assist  in   the  Clinical  Forensic  and  Thuthuzela  units,  SAPS  (especially  Family   Violence,  Child  Protection  and  Sexual  Offenses  Unit  staff),   interested  NPA  staff  and  relevant  NGO  staff.

021 557 0246

before Monday 5 December

Click here for full details

6pm: AGM and scavengar hunt/picnic (bring your own picnic hamper and digital camera)

7pm: Solve the mystery of Prof. Green’s dispatch

Watch the documentary on Supersport 5 (DSTV channel 205) today at 19:30 to relive the moments as well as the lives which have been changed by this organization.

Repeats of the show will be broadcast on:
11 November 2011 – Supersport 6 (Channel 206) at 09:00
12 November 2011 – Supersport 2 (Channel 202) at 22:30
13 November 2011 – Supersport 6 (Channel 206) at 09:00
14 November 2011 – Supersport 6 (Channel 206) at 21:30
15 November 2011 – Supersport 6 (Channel 206) at 11:30
17 November 2011 – Supersport 6 (Channel 206) at 16:00