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Physical Forensic Tools:
1. Hand Gloves: To prevent contamination of evidence.
2. Tweezers: For picking up small physical evidence.
3. Sterile Containers: For safe transportation of evidence.
4. Crime Scene Barrier Tape: To keep unauthorized people out of the crime scene.
5. Fingerprint brushes:
6. Fingerprint Powder: Used to develop latent fingerprints on smooth surfaces.
7. Magnifying Glass: To closely examine smaller evidence.
8. Alternate Light Source (ALS): Useful for identifying traces of blood, fiber, and other elements.
Chemical, Biological, and Trace Evidence Tools:
9. Swabs: For gathering biological samples.
10. Biological & Chemical test kits: To identify or analyze biological samples or chemical substances.
11. Ultraviolet (UV) light: To detect biological substances invisible to the naked eye.
12. Microscope: For examining minute details of specific types of evidence, such as hair or fiber.
13. Gas Chromatography/Mass Spectrometry Instruments: For analyzing chemical substances.
General and Advanced Equipment:
14. Casting Materials: To preserve and study footprints or tire tracks.
15. Forensic Light Sources: To detect latent fingerprints, trace evidence.
16. 3D Scanners and Drones: For a complete and detailed representation of complex crime scenes.
Digital Forensic Tools:
17. Forensic Computers: Computers equipped with software for digital and data analysis.
18. Write Blockers: Devices that allow the forensic computers to read data from a seized hard drive without altering any data.
19. Forensic Imaging Devices: To create a bit-for-bit copy of the data without altering any data.
20. Mobile Device Forensics Tools: To retrieve data from mobile devices.
21. Digital Camera: For documenting the crime scene.
22. Encryption Decryption tools: These tools help in retrieving data that has been encrypted.
23. Network Forensics Tools: These tools assist in capturing, recording, and analyzing network events to discover the source of security attacks or other problem incidents.
24. Email Analysis Tools: They help forensic investigators to analyze and recover emails of different formats.