Forensic Science Division

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Questioned Documents Sections

VSC2000/HR for the examination of forged documents
VSC2000/HR for the examination
of forged documents

The Questioned Documents Sections provide a comprehensive service to law enforcement departments in all aspects of questioned documents from handwriting and typewriting examination to counterfeiting and forgery. As part of the performance pledge of the laboratory, the target dates for 80% completion of handwriting and suspect document cases are 66 and 33 days respectively.
The main client of the section is the Hong Kong Police Force with the rest of the submissions coming from a number of other sources, including the Immigration Department and the Independent Commission Against Corruption.

The section is regarded as one of the leading authorities on the analysis of Chinese handwriting, a number of research papers have been published by members of the section during the past ten years.

Key Personnel

The officers of the section are as follows:

Senior Chemist, Chemist
and Document Examiner (E-mail address) 		Tel. No.
Dr. N L Poon, Senior Chemist
(nlpoon@govtlab.gov.hk)		 2745-9529
Ms. K M Chan , Chemist
(kmchan@govtlab.gov.hk)		 2745-9532
Ms. L P Chan , Chemist
(lpchan@govtlab.gov.hk)		 2745-9532
Mr. W C Chan, Chemist
(waicchan@govtlab.gov.hk) 		2745-9533
Dr. W K Lee, Chemist
(iwklee@govtlab.gov.hk)		 2745-9531
Ms. L M Wong , Chemist
(lmwong@govtlab.gov.hk)		 2745-9530
Mr. H T Fung, Document Examiner
(htfung@govtlab.gov.hk)		 2745-9531
Mr. P S Hung, Document Examiner
(pshung@govtlab.gov.hk		 2745-9530

Key Instruments

Smoking machine
Magnetic stripe analyzer

The following instruments are used routinely by the Section:

  • Magnetic stripe analyzer
  • Video spectral comparator
  • Electrostatic Detection Apparatus
  • Ribbon Analysis Workstation

Targets and Key Indicators

Key Performance Measures Relating to the Forensic Science Services

Targets

Targets are defined as the number of working days required to complete 80% of cases

Category Targets Working Days Per Case 2006
(Actual)		 2007
(Actual)		 2008
(Plan)
Handwriting examination 66 84 84 78
Counterfeiting/forgery 33 31 26 32
Express counterfeiting/forgery service 1 1 1 1

Key Indicators

Key indicators are the number of cases completed

Number of Cases Investigated 2006
(Actual)		 2007
(Actual)		 2008
(Estimate)
Questioned documents 2,154 1,791 1,800

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