Clinical Forensic Medicine: EFMA applies medical expertise to legal cases involving injury, death, and abuse, providing critical evidence for legal proceedings.
Innovations in Autopsy Techniques and Forensic Pathology: EFMA introduces advanced autopsy methods and forensic pathology techniques that improve the determination of cause of death, especially in complex cases. These innovations enhance the efficiency and accuracy of forensic investigations.
Combating Violence Against Women and Children: EFMA supports investigations into abuse and assault cases, particularly involving women and children, by analyzing evidence and ensuring that proper medical procedures are followed to help secure justice for victims.
Medicolegal Responsibilities: Forensic experts face complex ethical and legal challenges in medicolegal cases. EFMA discusses how forensic specialists navigate these complexities, ensuring that medical and legal protocols are adhered to in the investigation process.
Forensic Medicine Laboratories
Enhancing DNA Analysis: EFMA focuses on advancements in DNA profiling that improve the accuracy and reliability of forensic investigations, strengthening evidence in criminal cases by identifying suspects and victims.
Strengthening Forensic Histopathology: The authority emphasizes new techniques in the microscopic examination of tissue samples, improving the determination of cause of death, particularly in suspicious or unclear fatalities.
Advancing Forensic Andrology: EFMA focuses on male-specific evidence, such as semen analysis and reproductive health, providing new methodologies for handling cases involving male-specific biological evidence.
Advancements in Forensic Serology: EFMA presents breakthroughs in forensic serology, enhancing the analysis of body fluids (e.g., blood, semen, saliva) to link suspects to crimes and provide critical legal evidence.
Forensic Chemical Laboratories
Exploring Forensic Toxicology Challenges: EFMA addresses the challenges in detecting drugs, poisons, and other toxic substances in post-mortem investigations, improving detection methods and providing reliable evidence in cases involving poisoning or drug overdose.
Detection of Drugs: EFMA laboratories use advanced techniques to detect drugs, alcohol, and medications in biological samples, aiding investigations into overdoses, impaired driving, and drug-related crimes, ensuring accurate legal evidence.
Forgery and Counterfeiting Investigation
The EFMA specializes also in employing advanced forensic techniques and technologies to combat forgery and fraud, addressing the growing prevalence of sophisticated counterfeiting methods, Key areas of expertise include:
Handwriting Analysis: Expertise in identifying handwriting anomalies, including, disguise, effects of aging, illness or artificiality. This includes principles of signature examination and comparison to identify simulated, traced, disavowed, and guided-hand signatures, enabling the determination of authorship through unique handwriting characteristics.
Detection of Altered and Fraudulent Documents: Utilizing specialized techniques to uncover alterations, obliterations, ink differentiation, and erasures in financial documents, checks, contracts, wills, and other critical records. This includes providing expert testimony in legal proceedings.
Authentication of Questioned Documents: Identifying evidence related to document creation, and modification. This may involve analyzing indented impressions, stroke sequences, incidental marks, etc. to establish authenticity or detect tampering.
Examination of Security Documents and Banknotes: Conducting in-depth analyses of banknotes, passports, national IDs, and other security documents to identify counterfeit items. Additionally, offering expert advice on incorporating advanced security features to enhance document protection.