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Preventive Medicine 2018 Journal of Preventive Medicine
ISSN: 2572-5483 Page 66
July 16-17, 2018
London, UK
9th Edition of International Conference on
Preventive Medicine
& Public Health
Globally, regionally and local population health suffer from
significant number of evidence contamination, which remains
inadmissible in jurisprudence thus, major challenges among
forensic investigators and population health. In given secured
crime scene triangle, (History / testimony, physical evidence and
victim/ corpse), most investigators ignore admissible evidence
as indicated by witness, geographical features or, anatomical
positions of the victim scene, hence provide evidence based on
current events on victim, with limited reconstruction of evidence
content on scene, thus contaminating valuable medico-legal
evidences and render them inadmissible before a common
law. Traditional forms of forensic investigations remain key
pillar, which provide access to look at crimes objectively and
uncertainty on measured results. Determinants of increased
evidence contamination at crime scene in Sub-Saharan Africa
(SSA) are aimed at hiding political and social cultural differences
among population health, hiding patient mismanagement, and
enhancing unavailability of valid data from the crime scene to
testify. Also, prolonged limited access to grant witness immunity
and limited access to affordable and reliable forensic training in
middle level in medical on standard procedure of management
of quality evidence at crime scene remains a major challenge
on implementing quality medico-legal issues. Failure to utilize
quality standards on evidence reconstruction, have ignited
severe criticism in forensic science. Chain of custody on secured
evidence and traceable at all times remains unachievable in
western Kenya. Hence, need for study using sampling and
cross sectional designs, by purposive sampling, research tools
used were survey and interviews on forensic service providers.
Exploring study, a sample size of 160 respondents was used.
Result showed, majority) 84%, (150) respondents, demonstrated
that evidence contaminations are aimed at hiding real evidence,
thus also established that, prevalence of witness
reconstructionamongforensicexpertsprovidingforensicservices
are trained on criminal investigation and forensic science, those
on contract are low compared to forensic experts, permanently
employed, with prevalence risks of OD (0.34, 2.22) and relative
risk of RR (1.5) signifying, that more we employ unsuitable and
unreliable forensic experts, higher we increase harmful effect on
population health, study revealed that, over 85% (136) service
providers have no a dear on witness grant immunity with RR (3.6).
Factors hindering accessibility of quality medico-legal service
in secured diagnostic crime in Western Kenya
Maurice B Silali
Maseno University, Kenya
J Prev Med 2018, Volume 3
DOI: 10.21767/2572-5483-C1-003