Bob Milne has completed over 39 years service with the Metropolitan Police in Forensic services as a Forensic |practitioner in the roles of ACPO registered Fingerprint Expert, Crime Scene examiner and manager dealing with all crime types including arson casework up to and including homicide.

Experience in forensic arson examination and evidence recovery was provided by the Metropolitan Police and the Fire Investigation Unit at the Metropolitan Police Forensic Science laboratory prior to its assimilation into the Forensic Science Service Gov Co. Bob was attached to the laboratory in the role of Laboratory Liaison. During his service for over 30 years he dealt with three or four arson cases per month.

Bob is the author of papers on footwear recovery and techniques, the applications of forensics to crime intelligence, Forensic Intelligence, modern magnetic fingerprint powders, the Mathematics of Scene Linking, the Crime Mapping of Forensic Evidence, the uses of Forensics in Geographical Profiling, Electrostatic mark searching and recovery having designed the wireless electrostatic mark lifter The Pathfinder, which is now copied by a number of manufacturers and is the standard design of ESL lifter used in the World today. In his role as Forensic Intelligence Manager for the Met Police in the Met Intelligence Bureau (MIB) Bob worked with Peter Mansi and the Met / London Fire Brigade's management teams and fire investigators on the MET LFB Partnership in the reduction of deliberate fire setting and in dealing with arson data in the area of producing intelligence products for action resulting in the detections and convictions of a number of serious arsonists. Bob designed the Forensic Intelligence Data structure for arson in consultation with Peter Mansi who has taken the issue forward in Creating a Ten Point Plan for the investigation of arson. The Forensic intelligence data structure for arson presented at the IAAI meeting at Brunel in 2005 is utilised in the new eFIT1 computerised system for reporting deliberate fire setting to Police under the Met/ LFB partnership.

Bo is looking forward to his role as the London Regional Representative for the IAAI and has already written to forensic equipment suppliers to inform them of opportunities to place their trade stands at reasonable rates at IAAI conferences and to explore the possibilities for these companies to provide sponsorship run workshops so that IAAI members can try their products.

Bryn Strudwick CFI

Bryn Strudwick is the Fire Investigation and Arson Task Force Manager for Surrey Fire and Rescue Service.

He is a dedicated fire investigation officer who manages 2 Watch Managers and 12 ‘bolt on role’ Fire Investigation Officers, Arson Reduction and Adult Safeguarding in Surrey.

He is the single point of contact for Surrey Police Major Crime Team, CID and Scenes of Crime, Surrey HM Coroner, HSE and the Environment Agency Crime Teams.

He is a member of the Surrey Crimestoppers Board.

Having served as the Chair of the South East Regional Fire Investigation Group, he is currently the vice chair and chair of the South East Regional Fire Investigation Dog Handlers Working Group.

He is a trained police interviewer and regularly interviews arson suspects with CID and acts as an advisor to CPS on cases of fire and explosions.

He can be contact on;

Mobile: 07800621958

Pete Sandel is an associate partner of three investigators working in the private sector, based in the West Country but providing both National and International coverage; an IAAI Certified Fire Investigator and Registered Expert Witness. Peter spent 35 years in the Fire & Rescue Service, before retiring. 20 of those years as a full time fire investigator and F.I. trainer in the West Midlands, Devon & Cornwall. A founder member of the Forum of Arson Investigators, and a member of the Regional Crimestoppers Board.

Contact Details email (via the IAAI-UK website contacts page )
Tel: 01395 263205
Mob. 07762 312046

Carl Baldwin is a qualified and experienced Detective Constable for Hertfordshire Constabulary.
He joined Hertfordshire Constabulary in 1991 following five years employment within the insurance industry. He also has a good working knowledge of the building industry.
For the past six years Carl has worked as an intelligence cell co-ordinator for the Major Crime Task Force of Hertfordshire Constabulary. This unit investigates the most serious crime that occurs throughout the county, predominantly Murder, Kidnap and Stranger Rape. Within this unit Carl provides a core intelligence capability for Major Crime Investigations. His responsibilities include matters subject of RIPA (Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act), the gathering, evaluation, analysis and dissemination of intelligence, mobile phone examination and analysis of call data together with any necessary covert investigation.
Throughout his service Carl has amassed a wealth of experience in his field, working with SOCA (Serious and Organised Crime Agency, previously NCS and NCIS), the Metropolitan Police Flying Squad and the National Domestic Extremism Team. He regularly works with HOLMES (Home Office Large Major Enquiry System) and is a Tier 3 Advanced Interviewer. He has been the enquiry liaison with the BBC for three crime reconstructions and is one of very few officers who have dealt with not one but two exhumations.
In recent years Carl has been part of the team responsible for investigating the death by fire of Wayne Trotter in Borehamwood in 2002; the burning body in a suitcase, stabbed and doused in petrol in Aldenham in 2004; the Buncefield Fuel Depot fire in 2005; the murder of Serena Mahoney in Cheshunt in 2006; the Tesco blackmail in July 2007, and most recently the triple murder in Bishops Stortford in August 2007. Carl has now taken up a position on the Cold Case Review Team, reviewing historical unsolved murders and rapes, identifying lines of enquiry and forensic opportunities.
His speciality has become mobile phones and call records.

To contact Carl please use the East Regional Representative`s email address (via the IAAI-UK website contacts page ) .

Martin Hyett is a full time Fire Investigation Officer in the West Midlands Fire Service Fire Research & Investigation Section. He joined the Fire Service in 1985 and started investigating fires full time in 1998.

Martin holds a Bachelor of Science (Honours) degree in Chemistry and is a Member of the Institution of Fire Engineers by examination.

Mick is a Group Manager with South Wales Fire & Rescue Service. He currentley manages the fire investigation team in South Wales.


E-mail: (via the IAAI-UK website contacts page )
Tel: To follow

Deon Webber is the Fire Investigation Team Manager for Greater Manchester Fire & Rescue Service. Further details to follow.

John Gow served for almost thirty one years with Strathclyde Fire & Rescue Service the last twelve years of which was as a full time fire investigator.

During his time with the brigade he attended SFR Fire Investigation Course, the National FI Course at the Fire Service College, 16th Fire & Explosion Investigation Course at Edinburgh University and the De-Haan Advanced Fire Investigation Course. John has also attended the two week Post Blast Investigative Training II, provided by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and explosives. John was a Registered Forensic Practitioner in fire scene examination, and was also an assessor, in fire scene examination, for the Council for the Registration of Forensic Practitioners until CRFP ceased to function in 2009.

He began his career as an investigator in 1998 when SFR established the first full time FI unit in Scotland. John was fully involved in the development of the section and it’s Modus Operandi. He was also responsible for the development of a suite of data collection forms, which formed the basis of a Scottish national standard and he represented both Strathclyde Fire and Rescue Service and CFOA(S) at national forums on the development of fire investigation and crime scene standards.

John developed and delivered a fire investigation training package targeted at first responding officers and firefighters both locally and nationally within a Scottish context. He has also delivered presentations to both Scenes of Crime Officers and Forensic Scientists and has also organised training with the objective of improving fire investigation procedures and evidence recovery techniques at deliberately set fires.

John has presented evidence at both Criminal Courts and at Fatal Accident Inquiries.

After leaving public service early in 2010 he had a short break before resuming a career in Fire Investigation within the private sector. John joined International Fire Investigators and Consultants (IFIC) as a Senior Investigator in their Glasgow Office.

CONTACT DETAILS
Email: via the IAAI-UK website contacts page.