• to provide services to the highest standards of excellence within the organisation’s and the individual practitioner’s field of competence
• to uphold the terms of service agreed at the outset of any contract
• to work within defined resource constraints (time, personnel, financial)
• to set ‘reasonable’ fees consistent with those charged by other forensic scientists, or other relevant professionals; these will reflect any given security situation or other specific considerations in overseas missions
• to refrain from undertaking work on a contingency fee basis
• to refrain from taking instructions from any party or organisation that is legally unacceptable, or that conflicts with our organisational values and ethics, or which precludes good scientific practice
• to recognise and advise on techniques from an informed basis only
• to maintain the highest level of objectivity in all cases and to accurately present the facts involved based on the limitations of the evidence itself.
• while adhering to the Inforce Protocols and Standard Operating Procedures where possible, to accept the need to adapt methodology when warranted by particular circumstances ⁱ
• to ensure appropriate reporting and archiving / storage of findings and data
• to refrain from working with non-police or other informal investigative agencies or to jeopardise on-going police or other formal enquiries.

ⁱ  But when it is agreed as necessary to vary, then the rationale and process must be logged.

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