Hi, I'm Mariko Fujimura. I'm a forensic science specialist. I start my day at 6 a.m. I work a 12 hour shift. We do have 24 hour coverage and work a rotating schedule, like, similar to the deputies. When I get in at six in the morning, I log into the CAD and ACISS and see what reports I have pending and can begin my work there while we wait for a call to come in. We're heading to a vehicle burglary in which a firearm was stolen from an unlocked vehicle. We're going to be talking to the deputy to kind of figure out if there is any video recording of the incident. Then we can pinpoint, narrow down where the focus of our search is going to be. Possibly, what door they entered, where the firearm was taken from, and where we're going to focus our efforts on collecting DNA and fingerprints. So now that we have all of our case information, I can start prepping to start processing the scene. We always wear some form of PPE, which is personal protective equipment on scene. The nitrile gloves are to keep our DNA ours and not contaminate the scene. So this is my DNA kit. It has distilled water, which we, which I sanitize after usage. And then my pen I sanitized so I know that I'm not cross contaminating from a previous scene. And since we know the point of entry was more than likely the driver's door, I'm going to focus on this area. And then, the area from which the firearm was taken from, which is the glove box. We do a wet, dry collection method, so one will be dampened with the distilled water and the other one will remain dry. And then we're going to do a collection on where we think that possibly could have been touched by our suspect. And when we are swabbing these items, if they can be processed for fingerprints, I'm making sure that I'm going to swab an area that would not be really viable for fingerprint processing. I’m going to be using the regular powder on the exterior. I'll probably use the magnetic on the items within. Possible known point of entry is the driver's door, I'm going to focus my processing on there. So the goal is to not have air bubbles in your tape. Because that could mean that we’re not going to get the ridge detail that we want. Once I've lifted, I'm going to apply it to a plain white card. So it really allows us to see the ridge detail. I’ll make a nice little doodle of my door, and where I collected it from. I’m going to collect this so I can process it at the lab. It's a porous material, which is paper. Means that water can penetrate it. The best way to process it would be to use a chemical at the lab in a controlled environment. So I can apply that when we get back. Part of processing our crime scene, the final step is going to be collecting elimination fingerprints and DNA from our victims or any known parties to frequent the area. They're not put into any database. It's just used for direct comparison. I’m going to package all of the evidence that I collected, and then I can enter it into our computer program, which is ACISS, which kind of controls all of our evidence and maintains the chain of custody for us. This is our chemical lab. We always want to create a new clean surface for any evidence items that we're introducing into the lab. Since it is a porous item, I'm going to be processing it with a chemical called Ninhydrin. And then I have the heat press warming up to temperature so that we can expedite the development. Now we can take our envelope and process it with the Ninhydrin. Now we’ll remove our item and then we can apply heat using the heat press Again, we like to keep a clean surface. So because it's been processed with Ninhydrin, I don't want that Ninhydrin to get on the next item that's going to be processed. Now we can examine our item. When capturing an image of a latent print or friction ridge detail, we're going to use a mark scale. That way, a latent examiner can tell the accurate size of the ridge detail area. Now that we've completed all of our evidence, we're going to take it down to our evidence lockers where we will submit it for pickup by the Property and Evidence Section. It's a secure room and then beyond the secure room, we're going to secure it, additionally secure it, within a locker. So our swabs and envelope are going to go in the locker. And then my latent lift cards and elimination prints are going to go into submission for the AFIS Section. The last step of the case is we're going to submit our photo disk from our crime scene and the additional photo disk from the latent images to our Forensic Imaging Unit. They'll be able to process the photographs so that I can review them for my report later, as well as process them for AFIS to be able to do the examination. And once these photos are dropped, my portion of the case is over. And hopefully with the information that I gathered, we'll be able to make an identification of the suspect. Please remember to lock your car doors and take all your valuables out at the end of the day. so we had a vehicle burglary. Come in. I'm going to take the call, so I'm going to sign myself up. Next, I would take down all of the case information so that I'm prepared for when I arrive on scene. I like to be prepared ahead of time and I'm going to GPS it.