Kenneth F. Martin

Kenneth F. Martin currently holds the rank of Detective Lieutenant with the Massachusetts State Police and has been a member of the department for twenty-nine years.  Detective Lieutenant Martin is the Commanding Officer of the Crime Scene Services Section, which has been accredited by ASCLD-Lab under their legacy program.  In addition to overseeing the state’s seven CSSS laboratories, he is an adjunct instructor in the forensic biomedical program at Boston University’s School of Medicine.  Mr. Martin has a B.A in Biology; a B.S. in Criminal Justice; a M.S. in Criminal Justice and a graduate of the FBI’s National Academy 192nd session.  Mr. Martin is a past president of the International Association for Identification and presently the IAI’s representative to the Consortium of Forensic Sciences.  In addition to lecturing and having been published in the Journal of Forensic Identification, he is certified by the IAI as a latent fingerprint examiner, footwear examiner, bloodstain pattern analyst, and senior crime scene analyst.  Mr. Martin has served as a member of various working groups including the General Forensics Technology Working Group (TWG), the Office of Law Enforcement Technology Commercialization (OLETC), and the Scientific Working Group on Friction Ridge Analysis, Study and Technology (SWGFAST).  Mr. Martin currently serves as a member of Scientific Working Group on Bloodstain Pattern Analysis (SWGSTAIN), the NIJ/NIST Expert Working Group on Human Factors in Latent Print Analysis, and the International Association of Chiefs of Police Forensic Science Committee.