Stacy Stern

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Stacy Stern
The AFP and IBIS-TRAX 3D A New PlayerAuthor
Federal Agent Paul McFawn Forensic Technical
Services, Australian Federal Police
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Australian Federal Police

• Australia's international law enforcement and
  policing agency
• Chief source of advice to the Australian
  Government on policing issues
• Enforces Commonwealth criminal law and protects
  Commonwealth and national interests

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Focus

• Prevention, countering and investigation of
  transnational and multi-jurisdictional crime,
  including
• terrorist offences
• illicit drug trafficking
• economic crime
• high-tech crime
• aviation security
• policing the ACT, and
• International Deployment Group

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Transnational crime
Transnational Crime Coordination Centre in
Canberra
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International NetworkOffices in 31 locations in
26 Countries (as at October 2006)
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International Deployment Group
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Terrorism

• Joint counter terrorism teams around Australia

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Forensic Technical Services
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IBIS-TRAX 3D Our Need?

• No system in place to check cross jurisdictional
  firearms crime in Australia
• Clearly an identified need for IBIS
• New South Wales Police needed a system to assist
  in the investigation of serious handgun crime in
  Sydney which had grown to unprecedented levels
• NSWPOL selected IBIS in 2000 as the tool they
  needed to assist in this task
• NSWPOL have proposed a National IBIS Network for
  Australia a number of time without success
• Smaller jurisdictions unwilling to advance or
  support an IBIS network unless the AFP took the
  lead and purchased a system

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AFP IBIS-TRAX 3D Installed and Operational

• IBIS-TRAX 3D was installed in late February 2007
  with training completed by mid March.
• The system is now being validated with
  operational procedures being formulated and
  documented.
• Staff comprised of 2 x Firearms ID Examiners, 1
  x Firearms ID / IBIS Trainee, 1 x IBIS
  Technician. The staffing level will be reviewed
  at regular intervals
• When the system becomes fully operational by the
  early May 2007 AFP will contact New South Wales
  Police who operate an IBIS Heritage system in
  Sydney to network the two systems together.

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Our System Configuration

• Purchased a complete IBIS HUB system
• Installed in the Canberra laboratory - comprised
  of
• 1 x BulletTRAX-3D
• 2 x BrassTRAX
• Both units are installed one can be re-located
  to a remote site if required
• 1 X MatcPoint
• Correlation Server
• File Server
• Data Concentrator

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AFP IBIS-TRAX 3D HUB Remote BrassTRAX
MatchPoint
BrassTRAX
BulletTRAX-3D
Data Concentrator
Correlation Server
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Early Tasks for AFP IBIS-TRAX 3D

• Back-capture and image all unsolved firearm crime
  exhibits held by the AFP including
• Imaging the fired cartridge cases from the crime
  scene where an AFP Officer was shot and killed in
  the Solomon Islands in December 2004 the
  military rifle used has not been found. Any
  firearms seized to date have been test fired and
  samples collected
• Imaging of over 250 fired cartridge cases from
  the scene of a mass shooting that occurred in
  Dili, East Timor, in May 2006. Over 1,500 seized
  firearms have been test fired in this
  investigation so far
• These two cases were pivotal in convincing the
  IDG to fund the purchase of IBIS-TRAX 3D for
  Forensic Services

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Why a 2nd Re-locatable BrassTRAX?
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Test Fire and Imaging of All AFP Issue Firearms

• Test fire and image all AFP issue firearms 2
  year project
• Over 5,500 firearms on official issue
• All AFP firearms are serviced at least once per
  year
• Most are Glock self loading pistols in 9mm
  calibre
• The remainder are Special Issue firearms such as
  Assault Rifles, Sun-machine guns, Shotguns and
  Sniper Rifles Issued to Operational Specialist
  Security and Response Teams (aka SWAT)
• To date over 900 test fire sets have been
  collected.
• We estimate it will take 2yrs to collect the test
  fire samples and image them on IBIS

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Proposed IBIS-TRAX 3D Network for Australia Aus
BIS
Canberra
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Australasia - Regional Network links?
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Strategic partnerships
Law enforcement agencies now need to work even
closer, become even more collaborative and
strategic in their efforts to prevent, counter
and investigate transnational crime.
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Conclusion
We will continue to play our part in maintaining
a safe environment for the Australian people, and
working with international law enforcement
partners, we will help prevent and fight crime,
now and into the future. IBIS-TRAX 3D is seen as
major weapon that will be used by the AFP to
achieve this goal.
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