In mass disaster situations, do you (or your forensic unit) follow Interpol’s disaster victim identification guide?
If other protocol is used, kindly specify.
India has been a member of Interpol since 1949. The INTERPOL’S Disaster Victim Identification Guide provides the DVI process, which adopts the importance to treat victims with respect and dignity whilst following the standards...
In India, NDMA deals with disaster management. In many cases, like tsunami 2004, Uttrakhand disaster, India followed the Interpol DVI guidelines for indenfication purpose...
In 2018, following a long preparation, the Hungrian national DVI Team has been established under the Rapid Response and Special Police Force, Bureau of Investigation (KR NNI). In the June of 2018 fourty applicants (policemen, forensic pathologists and odontologists) finished succesfully the Interpol basic DVI course in Budapest. After the basic course a simulation exercise were held in the cooperation of Semmelweis University, Budapest (SE), National University of Public Service, Budapest (NKE) and KR NNI.
In the May of 2019 the sightseeing vessel „Hableany” capsized and sunk in Budapest, 28 people died. The DVI Hungary along with the Korean DVI made the DVI operation.
Thank you. Currently, the ICRC protocols are used in Mexico and those of INTERPOL are also considered. With 23,000 unidentified people plus 87,000 missing, you can imagine the amount of work for the area of human identification: medicine, dentistry, fingerprinting, anthropology and forensic genetics are the 5 reports that the investigation of any rest must take before going to mass graves that Forensic cemeteries are now being built just for these individuals and those lucky enough to be identified are turned over to their families. Later there will be the urgency to clarify the fact of violent death.
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