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Kenneth Martin is a retired Detective Lieutenant with the Massachusetts State Police.
He served in the department for almost thirty-three years before retiring. Detective
Lieutenant Martin was the Commanding Officer of the Crime Scene Services Section
(CSSS) of the MSP Forensic Services Group, which is accredited by ASCLD-Lab under
the ISO-17025 program. He oversaw casework and supervised crime scene response
and evidence collection, latent print examination, shoe and tire track examination, and
bloodstain pattern analysis conducted by the CSSS within the MSP statewide laboratory
system. Mr. Martin also served as the Quality Assurance Manager for the Latent
Fingerprint Section of the New York City Police Department for two years.
Mr. Martin is a past president of the International Association for Identification and
currently serves as the IAI’s representative to the Consortium of Forensic Sciences. In
addition to lecturing and publishing, he is certified by the International Association for
Identification as a Footwear Examiner, Bloodstain Pattern Examiner, and Senior Crime
Scene Analyst. He has served on various working groups, including the General
Forensics Technology Working Group, the Office of Law Enforcement Technology
Commercialization, and the Scientific Working Group on Friction Ridge Analysis, Study
and Technology.
Mr. Martin has also served on the Scientific Working Group on Bloodstain Pattern
Analysis, the NIJ/NIST Expert Working Group on Human Factors in Latent Print
Analysis, and the International Association of Chiefs of Police Forensic Science
Committee. He holds a B.A. in Biology; a B.S. in Criminal Justice; and an M.S. in
Criminal Justice. He graduated from the FBI’s National Academy (192nd session). He is
an adjunct instructor in the graduate forensic biomedical program at Boston University’s
School of Medicine and is certified by the Massachusetts Municipal Police Training
Committee as a Level III Instructor in Investigative Techniques. He currently serves as a
private examiner, conducting casework and training in latent print, footwear/tire track,
crime scene, and bloodstain pattern analysis.