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Having just started as a Scenes of Crime Officer with Leicestershire Constabulary, in January this year, and successfully completed my 9 week initial training course at NTC, Durham, I find this book a very helpful guide for photographing evidence at crime scenes. This book deals with many different kinds of things I have yet to encounter/experience as I am only now just starting to go out on my own, having been tutored for the past month or so. I recommend it to anyone who wants to learn how to do this type of photography and to those who use photography in the job.

This book is a great introduction to the subject of crime scene and evidence photography as the pictures contained therein are excellent and the beginner is not overwhelmed by technical jargon. Although slightly high in price, I feel the book is still worth owning and it is a precious part of my SOCO kit and use the useful information provided when out in the field.

I like the fact that the book is spiral bound and easy to handle; I like the style and format of the book especially the diagrams and helpful step-by-step check lists and sample photographs.

After attending classes, studying photography, and working as an investigator, I still needed a guide for the photographing evidence and crimes. This book deals with how to photograph almost all the kinds of things I have encountered in the field in my eight years as a crime scene investigator. I recommend it to anyone who wants to learn how to do this type of photography, and to those who use photography on the job. I found it so useful that my department bought copies for all thirteen of our crime scene investigators!

Based on twenty tears of Law Enforcement experience with one of the largest Police Departments in the United States, I found that this publication is more of a brochure introducing one to the subject as opposed to a complete overview of the subject.

While the pictures of various aspects of the subject were excellent, I felt there was not enough written detail about the use of filters, night time photography and other facets of the subject too numerous to mention.

I got the impression from seeing the advertisement pages in the rear of the book about the author's other products that these pages could have been put to better use with more technical information about the subject.

In conclusion, it is my feeling that the book is over priced for the amount of information that is contained on its sixty odd pages.