{"id":53741,"date":"2014-07-21T05:58:44","date_gmt":"2014-07-21T10:58:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=53741"},"modified":"2014-07-21T05:58:44","modified_gmt":"2014-07-21T10:58:44","slug":"a-gs-office-now-has-3d-laser-scanner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2014\/07\/21\/a-gs-office-now-has-3d-laser-scanner\/","title":{"rendered":"A-G’s office now has 3D laser scanner"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ohio Attorney General\u2019s information<\/i><\/p>\n

COLUMBUS — Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine announced that crime scene agents\u00a0with the Attorney General\u2019s Bureau of Criminal Investigation (BCI) have a new tool\u00a0to assist in\u00a0documenting complex crime scenes.<\/p>\n

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Attorney General Mike DeWine<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Agents are now using a 3D laser scanner, which sits on a tripod and rotates 360 degrees,\u00a0to take\u00a0millions of precise laser measurements and hundreds of digital photographs.\u00a0 The end result produced with this latest crime scene technology is a \u201cto scale\u201d video that flies through the scene.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are always looking to put the best tools in the hands of our BCI agents, so they can be more efficient,\u201d said Attorney General DeWine.\u00a0\u201cThis new technology helps our agents capture more information quickly when they investigate a complicated crime scene.\u00a0 The end product also provides an accurate visual for jurors, which helps county prosecutors with their criminal cases.\u201d<\/p>\n

Currently BCI has one 3D laser scanner in use.\u00a0By October, four more should be in place.\u00a0 Eventually, the five laser scanners will be spread out across Ohio for BCI agents to use in assisting local law enforcement agencies in criminal investigations.<\/p>\n

The images help capture measurements from any object in the scene.\u00a0 The images also help BCI agents reconstruct the crime scene by capturing bullet trajectories and bloodstain patterns.\u00a0 One laser scan takes about five minutes. As many as a dozen scans inside a crime scene (in different areas) may be needed to piece the entire scene together.<\/p>\n

BCI has used the 3D laser scanner technology about a dozen times, including the recent homicide investigation of a Cleveland Heights bar owner just a few weeks ago.\u00a0 In general, this technology will be used in homicide and officer-involved shooting investigations which involve complex crime scenes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ohio Attorney General\u2019s information COLUMBUS — Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine announced that crime scene agents\u00a0with the Attorney General\u2019s Bureau of Criminal Investigation (BCI) have a new tool\u00a0to assist in\u00a0documenting complex crime scenes. Agents are now using a 3D laser scanner, which sits on a tripod and rotates 360 degrees,\u00a0to take\u00a0millions of precise laser measurements […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-24 11:27:40","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53741\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}