SPOTLIGHT INVESTIGATIVE Keep Up With New Products Take advantage of educational opportunities to stay up to date on available products. products introduced each year, our profession would be leſt playing catch-up most of the time. This is true for our forensic disciplines, with automotive forever changing with the new technology and procedures being used today. Wayne Winton, my new assistant instructor at SAFETECH, showed the new Lishi T pick decoder for Kwikset and Schlage. This is a sweet tool that leaves almost no marks. Did you catch that? Almost, keeping in mind that the tool is stainless steel and you are using it in a die-cast plug with brass pins. And with a new cylinder, it is difficult to see the marks, but marks there are. In older cylinders, the marks are more visible because you upset the dirt and grime in the plug. Look for a forensic white paper on this new tool coming soon. For our forensic safe and vault investigators, a question keeps coming up about the LBB and the Phoenix tools. How do we know if this device has been used to open a safe? Great question. Just like the computers in automobiles, you can send the LBB and/or the Phoenix device to a forensic lab. They can interrogate it, give you an audit trail and provide the date, time and electronic signature of every lock it opened. So, you would need to recover the device from a suspected bad guy to have it tested. I received a call from an attorney in the LA area looking for a forensic safe ex- pert in their area who could look at a burglarized safe to tell them how the safe was opened and be available to testify in court. I referred them to a known safe expert IAIL member living in that area who just retired from the government. It is impor- tant to register your CV with IAIL so that when we receive calls in your area for an expert, we can refer them to your office. Conference and Testing The IAIL Forensic conference is scheduled for November 14-16, 2019 at our training center in Dallas, TX, the home of Dickey’s BBQ! We will be giving the test each night aſter classes, so if you are in for specific training to complete your mandatory classes, you can test that day. One of the unique aspects of being an IAIL member is that we allow any member to test for their CFL before their requirements are completed. The 12 KEYNOTES MAY 2019 his has been a whirlwind year for investigators. Crime is up, and attorneys are scrambling for experts in our specialty fields. It is good to see everyone taking advantage of education at the dis- tributor and locksmith shows across the country. Knowledge is im- portant to the investigator, and without the specific education on new “It is good to see everyone taking advantage of education at the distributor and locksmith shows across the country.” only drawback is if you pass the exam, you only have one year to complete everything. Always keep this thought in your mind: As a forensic investigator expert witness, you cannot have too many credentials aſter your name. I want congratulate Ronald Betschman, CML, CFDI, CFL, LSFDI, for passing his CFL examination last month. If you have any questions or would like information on IAIL programs, courses and/or CFL certificates, contact my office. Tom Resciniti Demont, AHC, CAI, CFDI, CFL, CMIL, CML, CMST, ICML, IFDI, LSFDI, ARL. President, In- ternational Association of Investigative Locksmiths. [email protected] Get Published! IAIL members: Submit your articles for the Investigative Spotlight department. Send your information to Ross Squire at [email protected]. WWW.ALOA.ORG
