FORENSIC SCIENCE EDUCATION                                                                                                   

Received Bachelor of Science degree in Forensic Science from John Jay College of Criminal
Justice in NYC, NY.

Completed graduate level course-work in forensic document examination from Oklahoma
State University (OSU):

  These full semester length, graduate courses are specially designed for the apprenticeship
  training of forensic document examiners
and was established in cooperation with the
  American Board of Forensic Document Examiners.


FORENSIC DOCUMENT EXAMINATION TRAINING                                                                 

Completed a formal 2.5 year training program in Forensic Document Examination as
prescribed by the
ASTM Standard Guide for Minimum Training of Forensic Document
Examiners (ASTM E2388-05)
which includes (but not limited to):

  • Forensic Examination of Handwriting
  • Forensic Examination of Signatures
  • Printing Processes
  • Writing Instruments & Inks
  • Mechanical Impressions
  • Paper
  • Facsimiles
  • Typewriters
  • Photocopiers
  • Computer Printers
  • Charred and Soaked Documents
  • Expert Witness & Legal Proceedings
  • Photography and Digital Imaging
  • Alterations, Obliterations, and Erasures

  Training included (former and current) personnel of the:
  • Nassau County, NY Police Department - Scientific Investigations Bureau
  • New York City Police Department (NYPD) - Forensic Investigations Division
  • United States Secret Service (USSS)
  • Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
  • United States Postal Inspection Service (USPIS)
  • United States Department of Homeland Security

Completed 400 hour Forensic Internship in the Questioned Documents Section of the Nassau
County, NY Police Department - Scientific Investigations Bureau

Completed training from:
  • Rochester Institute of Technology
  • American Board of Forensic Document Examiners
  • American Academy of Forensic Sciences
  • Northeastern Association of Forensic Scientists


PUBLICATIONS AND SCIENTIFIC PRESENTATIONS                ________ _________

A Close Look at the Significance of Margin Drift; What Does it Really Tell Us?
Published in the Journal of the American Society of Questioned Document Examiners Vol. 2, No.
2, Dec 1999
(Download Abstract)

Statistics and Forensic Document Examination
Published in the American Board of Forensic Document Examiners Newsletter, Fall 1997.

Using Adobe Photoshop to Decipher Overwritten Writings Present on an ESDA Image
Published in the American Board of Forensic Document Examiners Newsletter, Spring 1997.

Limited Writing Area and its Effect on Signatures – A Preliminary Study
Presented at the American Academy of Forensic Sciences 1998 meeting

Differentiation of Colored Pencils Using the Video Spectral Comparator(VSC)
Presented at the Northeast Association of Forensic Scientists 2004 meeting

Classification and Computer Databasing of Bank Robbery Notes
Presented at the Northeast Association of Forensic Scientists 1996 meeting.
Professional
Affiliations

American Society of
Questioned Document
Examiners
(ASQDE)

American Academy of
Forensic Sciences
(AAFS)    

Northeastern Association
of Forensic Scientists
(NEAFS)

American Society for
Testing and Materials
(ASTM)
Developed, constructed, and
implemented a computer
database system for a police
department's collection of
bank robbery notes.
Collections of  used robbery
notes can consist of
hundreds, even thousands of
individual notes. Now when a
new robbery note is received
for analysis, the entire
database of previously used
notes can be search in
seconds.
Currently in use in
both the NYPD and Nassau
County Police Department.
Robert's original technique
for using Adobe Photoshop  
for enhancing images
obtained from an
electrostatic detection
device for the decipherment
of indented writing was
recommended by the author
in "Forensic Document
Examination on the
Computer - A Guide for
Document Examiners, by
Gary Herbertson.
Qualifications include a powerful combination of BOTH
a
formal, forensic science education as well the
completion of a highly specialized, multi-year
apprenticeship training program in
Forensic Document
Examination
.


Call 516.776.9302 for a
free initial consultation
Robert F. Bey
Forensic Document Examiner
Qualifications