Ray Jenkins, BSc, MSc
Ray Jenkins joined Forensic Access as a Consultant in 2002, from Forensic Alliance Limited where he had been working as a forensic chemist since early 1998.
Having studied for his first degree at the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, Ray took up his first appointment as a forensic scientist at the Home Office Central Research Establishment at Aldermaston in 1967. In 1974 he gained an MSc in Analytical Chemistry at the University of London and switched to case-work at the Home Office Forensic Science Laboratory, also at Aldermaston. In 1987 Ray travelled east to take up the position of Head of Chemistry for the Royal Oman Police in Muscat, returning to the UK in 1989 to serve as a forensic chemist at the Home Office Forensic Science laboratories in Aldermaston, Birmingham, Wetherby and London.
Ray is widely experienced in forensic chemistry, his main areas of expertise being:
- scene of crime work
- fires and explosions
- analysis of glass, paint and polymers
- altered and erased documents
- firearms
- tool and manufacturing marks
- traffic accident investigation
- the chemical development and comparison of footwear marks
- the chemical development of fingerprints
- lecturing to scenes-of-crime officers and Fire Brigade personnel
- the presentation of written and oral evidence in Courts of Law
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