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- Title
Identifying the victims of the Indian Ocean tsunami: The role of the private sector.
- Authors
Scanlon, Joseph
- Abstract
Until the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, identifying victims of a mass catastrophe was done largely by police and forensic scientists who tried to match pre-death and post-death data from paper files. The tsunami brought computer databases into the world of forensic identification and led to major involvement from four private-sector companies from Canada, France, Denmark and Norway Between them, the firms created a system to improve the handling of missing persons' calls; an automated fingerprint identification system; a system to generate possible matches between pre and post-death data; and a state-of-the-art morgue in Phuket, Thailand. In the past, there has been private-sector involvement in mass death incidents — for example, most funerals are conducted by private firms — but the tsunami marked a major shift to a public-private partnership in an area that has generally been limited to police and forensic scientists.
- Subjects
INDIAN Ocean; TSUNAMIS; PRIVATE sector; VICTIMS; FORENSIC engineering; DATABASES; FORENSIC scientists; NATURAL disasters; OCEAN waves
- Publication
Journal of Business Continuity & Emergency Planning, 2007, Vol 1, Issue 3, p312
- ISSN
1749-9216
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.69554/fcek2769