Which department of the PPD OFS would be the lead on this then? The FIU seems to be forensic ballistics only, at least by the website.
https://www.phillypolice.com/units/forensics/index.html
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Which department of the PPD OFS would be the lead on this then? The FIU seems to be forensic ballistics only, at least by the website.
https://www.phillypolice.com/units/forensics/index.html
Our armorer's have a few certifications beyond what we issue, but the forensics guys usually have like a dozen certifications. And we have numerous units involved in firearms ivestigation....FFU, Crime Gun Information Center, etc.
Meeting today with Sig. Definitely gonna need answers.
Sig response:
https://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/...18/septa-p320/
I think the frustrating thing about these incidents is we never really get to the bottom of them. Back in the mid-oughties, Portland PD had two Glock 21s Ka-boom in rapid succession, so they responded by removing the Glock 21 from service and mandating the 17 or 19 for patrol. Whenever I asked anyone about it, they would just shake their head.
A short lifetime ago I ran the IT department for a school district outside of Philly. One beautiful Saturday morning I awoke to several voicemails in regards to a cart of Apple laptops that had caught fire in the library of an elementary school that was attached to the district administration building. The fire damage was relatively small, but the smoke damage stretched beyond my no-experience-in-firefighting-or-investigation belief, regardless it was a significant amount of monetary damage. The one thing that stood out for me and my guys was we had just completed a 100% district-wide battery inspection (there was an industry-wide battery recall at the time) and these were not effected.
Long story short, despite Apple engineers, insurance types, and the cart company suits we were never told as to what the actual cause of the fire was. The company line was: it's been paid for.
My uneducated guess, with the P320 "issues", is that they have been paid for.