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Well, it finally happened. I got to chase down my first suspect… well, first two suspects I guess I should say. We had a call tonight of a disturbance in progress. Some guy (who we’ll call Clay) hit his girlfriend then fled the scene moments before officer’s arrival. When my shift commander got there he was told by the girlfriend which direction Clay went. The info was relayed to me and that’s the direction I headed.
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Just wanted to drop a note on here about some recent happenings at work. In November I managed to snag a dealer with 32 grams of weed. Last night I helped another officer chase down a guy who had tried to break into a department store. Then I went and picked up some small children (ages 8,6,2 and 2) from an apartment where they were left alone… unfortunately on that one, Human Services gave the kids back!

Also, I redesigned a site for a friend of mine. You can find it here. And I’ve got a new site in the works for the Arkansas Lawman magazine.

And, in addition to all that, I now have my own column in the Arkansas Lawman!!! It’s a tech column, of course, but it’s centered around law enforcement type stuff.

Just wanted to write a bit and try to bring this thing up to speed. I’ve been back from the police acadamy for a little over a month now. When I first got back I was assigned to code enforcement (political reasons) but due to the fact that we’ve recently lost about a third of our officers I’ve now been reassigned to patrol. Starting tomorrow I’ll be working 4 to midnight shift.
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Just a short post to say that I’ve been hired as a police officer recently and am schedueled to attend police acadamy from June throught September. This will probably be my last post until after I get back. Wish me well!

Thanks to an enzyme in a micro-organism found at a volcanic vent on Antarctica’s Mt Erebus, researchers at New Zealand’s Auckland and Waikato Universities and Australia’s Macquarie University have found a way to decrease the time it takes to test DNA. For example, in traditional methods of DNA testing there are 20 steps to extract DNA from a crime-scene sample of hair or other material, which takes about two days. In this new method, there is only one step which only takes four hours, according to Auckland University microbiologist Dr David Saul.

The new testing kits are expected to be marketed internationally in about six months.

Full story can be found at:
New DNA test method could speed crime solving

Pesonal take on the subject? It’s about time. There’s no reason why it should take as long as it does to data type the DNA in an object. This new technique should be able to drastically decrease the time it takes to solve major crimes.