A joint delegation, led by Detective Training Centre Superintendent Cheng Fuk-chuen and comprising representatives of Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institution and the Hong Kong R&D Centre for Logistic and Supply Chain Management of Innovation and Technology Commission, attended the 26th Meeting of the INTERPOL Standing Committee on Disaster Victim Identification (DVI) in Lyon, France from May 5 to 7. The meeting brought together a total of 150 representatives from 45 member countries.

 

At the meeting, some delegates elaborated on the difficulties they had encountered in recent major disasters and the establishment of their new Disaster Victim Identification Units (DVIU). Force delegates introduced the latest projects, including the use of tablet PCs for recording post-mortem (PM) data with a self-developed e-PM Form and the positioning and movement-tracing of search teams, recovered bodies, human remains, and property with Radio-frequency Identification. Both demonstrate a significant enhancement in data processing, transfer, security and mapping, compared with the use of paper forms in the past. Meeting delegates showed a great interest in the development of the Force's DVIU and some even requested more demonstrations after meeting for transfer of relevant technologies.

 

As a matter of fact, those two projects would be further incorporated with site-positioning and 3D terrain cartography to correlate all recorded data, which would definitely enhance the capability of the Force's DVIU.