1. Use of Forensic Science In Philippine Legal Aid
ERWIN PEREZ ERFE
Director, PAO Forensic Laboratory Services
Certified Forensic Physician (USA), Attorney-At-Law
Fellow, American College of Forensic Examiners Inst.
Diplomate, American Board of Forensic Medicine
Diplomate, American Board of Forensic Examiners

2. Forensic Laboratory inaugurated in January 2010

3. Forensic Laboratory

4. Forensic Laboratory

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6. Forensic Laboratory

7. Forensic Laboratory

8. Forensic Laboratory

9. FUNCTIONS The PAO Forensic Laboratory was Established
to Perform the following

10. Primary Function: To provide forensic support in litigation and case build-up to public attorneys nationwide

11. Secondary Function: Provide free forensic services to –
Secondary Function: Provide free forensic services to – * other government agencies * human rights cases (human rights groups; extrajudicial killings) * disaster victim identification

12. Forensic Services : Analysis of Forensic Evidence

13. Analysis of Forensic Evidence (In support of a Petition to Re-Open Case before the Supreme Court 2004)

14. Analysis of Forensic Evidence

15. Time and Motion Studies

16. Review of Court Exhibits

17. Review of Autopsy

18. Analysis of Physical Evidence

19. Bullet Trajectory Studies

20. Bullet Trajectory Studies

21. Test Firing Simulation

22. Reconstruction of the Crime Scene

23. Clinical Forensic Examinations

24. Clinical Forensic Examinations
Rape
- Child
- Adult
Wound Analysis
Scar Analysis
Victims of Violence
Women
Children
Torture Victims

25. Victims of Violence

26. Sex Determination

27. Wound Analysis

28. Scar Analysis

29. Post-Mortem and Autopsy Examinations

30. Field Post-Mortem Examination (Double Murder Case)

31. Autopsy (Suicide)

32. Autopsy (Assassination Case)

33. Bloodstain Pattern Interpretation and Crime Scene Reconstruction

34. Interpretation of Bloodstain Pattern

35. Forensic Odontology

36. Forensic Odontology

37. Forensic Osteology / Osteometrics

38. Forensic Osteology in Extra-Judicial Killings

39. Forensic Osteology in Disaster Victim Identification

40. Disaster Victim Identification

41. Forensic Archaeology/ Exhumations

42. Field Exhumations

43. Forensic and Evidence Photography

44. Forensic Photography Infrared Photography
Ultraviolet Photography (injuries, rape)
Evidence Macrophotography
Clinical Forensic Photography

45. Forensic Science Education of Public Attorneys
Forensic Science Lectures as part of the Mandatory Continuing Legal Education of Public Attorneys
Basic Forensics Training
Advance Forensics Training

46. Forensic Document Examination

47. Main Challenges of the Public Attorney’s Office Forensic Laboratory Services
Expand Forensic Services
Increase Penetration of Forensic Services

48. Thank you