Obtaining Document Standards for Comparison

Abstract

Lieutenant Stanley S. Smith, Document Examiner of the Pennsylvania State Police, has contributed to this Journal on several occasions. Since the major portion of his career with the Pennsylvania State Police has been spent in the Technical Laboratory, Lieut. Smith is well qualified to speak on the subject of collecting document standards. Many police officers fail to appreciate thoroughly the importance of proper investigation of the standard specimens in the early stages of a case, and the comments of the author in this paper should be of assistance to those who have only limited experience in this field of investigation.-EDITOR.