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The Netherlands Forensic Institute has set up an ink database with ink traces from ATM robberies to help identify the robbers. If the police find money or a jacket with ink residue, the NFI can, therefore, determine that a suspect was likely involved in a certain ATM bombing. “It also happens regularly that we find suspects on the run with …

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IR, PUP, NFI. What do all of those NFL roster designations mean?

Criminals are increasingly using flash powder from dangerous fireworks to intimidate others by setting off explosives at their homes or businesses. The number of such explosions and attempts thereto tripled in the Netherlands last year - 716 incidents, compared to 228 a year earlier, the Volkskrant reported based on figures from the National Police. Flash powder is particularly popular, according …

Chargers’ Corey Linsley placed on NFI list with non-emergent heart-related issue

Raiders place Chandler Jones on NFI list: Sources

By Dianna Russini, Tashan Reed and Vic Tafur The Las Vegas Raiders will place pass rusher Chandler Jones on the NFI list, team and league sources confirmed to The Athletic on Wednesday. — Vic Tafur September 20, 2023 Backstory Jones hasn’t been with the Raiders since their final training camp practice on Aug. 31. That’s really all I can say …

The opening of NFL training camps often brings a team’s non-football injury list, or NFI list, into the news. The NFI list is also being tossed around in conversation lately concerning Colts running back Jonathan Taylor and his discontent with the franchise regarding his contract. A player would miss a minimum of four games if he’s still on the NFI …

The Netherlands Forensic Insitute has launched a knife database to better investigate stabbings. “We wanted to get a good overview of the type of knives circulating on the street,” Peter Zoon, microspore researcher at the NFI, said to NOS. “Because it’s only a matter of time before we see those knives in cases.” The NFI, therefore, started photographing all knives …

A rape case in Drenthe, in which the suspect blames his identical twin brother, had the Netherlands Forensic Institute trying to find a way to distinguish the DNA of identical twins. “Identical twins arise from one fertilized egg,” Arnoud Kal, DNA expert at the NFI, explained to the broadcaster. If the NFI managed to find a way to distinguish between …

The police and the Netherlands Forensic Institute are intensifying the investigation into firearms that have been seized. "Around 600 shooting incidents take place in our country every year; there are victims in several dozen of them," said firearms expert Rob Hermsen of the NFI. "Ballistics investigations provide important evidence, for example in assassination investigations." Of the average 4,000 to 5,000 …

UvA and NFI launch study into the recognition of deepfakes

The number of homemade explosive devices in the Netherlands has almost tripled in a year, the Netherlands Forensic Institute said to NRC. NFI director Marc Elsensohn said that while the increase in number may be significant, it is completely in line with the increase in crime and subversion in the country. In the next five years, financial cutbacks at will …