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Kenneth Martin is a retired Detective Lieutenant from the Massachusetts State Police.  He was a member of the department for almost thirty-three years at the time of his retirement.  Detective Lieutenant Martin was the Commanding Officer of the Crime Scene Services Section of the MSP Forensic Services Group, which is accredited by ASCLD-Lab under the ISO-17025 program. He conducted casework in and supervised the disciplines of crime scene response and evidence collection, latent print examination, shoe and tire track examination, and bloodstain pattern evidence conducted by the CSSS of 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 is presently the IAI’s representative to the Consortium of Forensic Sciences.  In addition to lecturing to various audiences and having been published, he is certified by the International Association for Identification as a Footwear Examiner, Bloodstain Pattern Examiner, and Senior Crime Scene Analyst. He has served as a member of 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 as a member of 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. Mr. Martin has a B.A. in Biology; a B.S. in Criminal Justice; a M.S. in Criminal Justice and is a graduate of 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 has been certified by the Massachusetts Municipal Police Training Committee as a Level III Instructor in Investigative Techniques.  Currently he is working as a private examiner conducting casework and training in the disciplines of latent print, footwear/tire track, crime scene, and bloodstain pattern analysis.