5thEuropeanIABPAconferenceFinal programm

The 5 th European
Internaonal Associaon
of Bloodstain Paern Analysts
(IABPA) Conference
Rome 2015
Human blood detection dog.
Vincenzo Scavongelli ‐ HBDD ITALY
Abstract
The research project Human Blood Detection
Dog was born in 2007 by Micheli Giacomo and
Scavongelli Vincenzo in order to support the
activities of forensic investigation in the
search for traces of human blood latent, and
not, and human remains, through the use of
specifically trained canine units. The ultimate
purpose is to implement the existing protocols
of intervention experimenting new methods
and strategies through interdisciplinary and
multinational yearly simulation and through
targeted scientific studies, thus promoting
coordination and synergy of partnership between
the various scientific fields, canine
trainings and technology involved. Specifically,
two studies were performed: the scientific
validation of two of the four canine subjects
employed and the comparison of detection
capability of the same, including the two nonvalidated,
with the presumptive tests used in
forensic analysis of blood traces. In order to
be able to assess in an objectively reliable
performance, the animal subjects used were
considered as detection tools, performing the
tests in at least two different dates, in outdoor
or indoor location and in sterile conditions
or reproduction of actual scenarios of
intervention depending on the operating context.
In consequence of the results obtained it
can be said that the combined use of specifically
trained canine units and forensic presumptive
tests significantly increase the probability
of detection of traces of human blood;
in the first place for the complementarity of
signaling / positive results issued by the two
groups of tools, for the discrete reliability
found in both of them and then to the high
learning ability of animal subjects and of the
easy and rapid use of forensic presumptive
tests.
Biography
Since the born of the project, handler of his
two specific-trained dogs for the search of human
blood and human remains, Scavongelli
Vincenzo is involved in the development of
technologies and methodologies to facilitate the
planning and conduction of the researches and
he's also trainer for technical collaborators. He
has actively participated in national/international
conventions and conferences,
like the Second International Conference
on Engineering Geophysics (Al Ain, United Arab
Emirates) on November 25, 2013, regarding a
study where are combined geophysical methods
with the use of dogs for the detection of
corpse entitled "Search Missing Persons: A multidisciplinary
Analysis".
Along with Mr. Micheli, they organize, from
2012 yearly multinational and multidisciplinary
cross-training operations for the search of
missing persons deemed alive, deceased or
injured and related events connected. In 2009-
2010 he contributed along with Mr. Micheli to
graduation thesis named "Analysis and evaluation
for test results for scientific validation for
the search with dogs of human blood traces
(Dr. Trivella S.)” and in 2014 to graduation
thesis named "Olfactive sensibility study for the
use of canine units for the search of human
blood traces (Dr. Cossu S.)”.
In the meanwhile he is working together with
his staff to some works that could be improve
to understand the destruction and the dispersion
of human remains by the wildlife as well as
the study on the application of the deficit by
dehydration to facilitate the search for a missing
person.
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