5thEuropeanIABPAconferenceFinal programm

The 5 th European
Internaonal Associaon
of Bloodstain Paern Analysts
(IABPA) Conference
Rome 2015
Decision map for bloodstain
pattern recognition
Philippe Esperança ‐ BPA expert ‐ France
Abstract
The first step of the Bloodstain pattern
Analysis is the recognition of the pattern
studied. Following the Joe Slemko
definition, the identification is through
the examination of the shapes, locations
and distribution patterns of bloodstains.
These kind of information and goal of
identification reminded me my first academic
studies: Entomology.
For Insect as well as for all animals and
plants, exists key of identification or
map decision allowing their user to
identify the insect, animal or plant that
he studies. So why not doing the same
for the Bloodstain Patterns!!
I needed 7 years to finish my process of
identification using a map decision that
I am ready now to present you.
Using this tool of the Bloodstain Pattern
Recognition, the French ISO board allowed
me to present my total process of
Bloodstain Pattern Analysis for the ISO
17020 Accreditation.
But this process is another lecture presented
during this same IABPA congress.
Biography
Philippe Esperança started his career in Forensic
Sciences in 1990 being the scientific support
for the creation of the Forensic Entomology
Department of the French Gendarmerie Forensic
Institute.
The same Institute asked Philippe to create a
Bloodstain Pattern Analysis Service in 1999.
The discovery of this discipline over selfconducted
practices and trainings in Canada
was a great time to Philippe. In the same time,
he obtained a General Forensic MS He developed
the French BPA procedures and he has
educated the French Gendarmerie Criminal
Scene Investigators about BPA until he left the
French Gendarmerie in 2008.
His first BPA expertise was in 1999 with a
butchering and just after with a triple homicide.
He contributed to the development of the
Bluestar chemical product in 2000-2001.
He became the first qualified BPA expert for the
French criminal court in 2002 with the murder
of a juge in the Reunion Island. Now, he is
Bloodstain Pattern Expert for the Supreme
Court of France and for the International Criminal
Court.
He has also been appointed as a Bloodstain
Pattern Expert for cases outside France
(Belgium, US, Morocco).
He gives lectures in front of many different
people like judges, CIS, detectives, medical
examiners and university students.
Since this year he develop his own company for
forensic and BPA expertises for magistrates,
training for police academies and Research &
Development.
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