As part of his Policing Friendship Tour, Policing Insight and PolicingTV Founder Bernard Rix recently travelled with New Zealand Police Assistant Commissioner Bruce O’Brien to Auckland, to meet Dion Sheppard, Forensic R&D Programme Manager at ESR in Auckland, New Zealand. 

 

Bruce and Dion discuss development of the Lumi™ Drug Scan service, which was co designed by ESR and New Zealand Police. The new technology allows front-line police officers to rapidly identify illicit drugs using their mobile phone

 

The officer places a suspected illicit drug item on a small, dedicated handheld device, which pairs via Bluetooth to the Lumi™ App on the officer’s mobile phone. Results are generated within seconds and displayed within the Lumi™ app.