New technology to help Marana PD output crime scenes

Tucson, ariz. (13 news) – The Marana police authority has A new device with which crime scenes can be mapped.

It is a Trimble X9 Scanner And it has been on the wish list of the department for years.

It uses laser to measure crime scenes. Usually, the investigators do all of this by handing out the crime scene.

But now this machine takes care of it.

“It sends out a laser and uses a data assignment with Point Cloud so that it knows where there are things,” said Taylor Pitzer, specialist from MPD crime scene. “Then it builds this crime scene for us in a 3D room.”

Pitzer invited 13 messages to the police station on Monday to see them in action.

“When it shoots the laser, they say to a wall, know that it is the speed of light, and then it comes back,” said Pitzer. “This way it can show distances and things like that. It makes a lot of math.”

Pitzer scanned a room from two different areas. It took about three minutes for every scan. Then she showed us the results on a tablet.

You can look at the room from the perspective of the camera and mark things like weak sleeves or body.

13 messages were also shown a copy of a fake crime scene. In it, the audience can go through the crime scene and click on the left to load real pictures that have been taken by investigators.

“It also helps us show a jury what a crime scene looks like,” said Pitzer. “It also helps us create a 2D diagram that we can use that is scaled. It shows it in a millimeter accuracy and not in one foot when we draw it.”

The money used for purchase came from a scholarship from the Ministry of Justice. They are currently using this scanner for murders, incidents with the PCRIT and suspicious suicide.

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