Mark Reynolds
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Between 1988 and 2009, Dr Reynolds served with the WA Police in a variety of positions including VIP Protection and Counter Terrorist Intelligence, Public Order Control, City and Rural Uniformed Patrol and as a Police Prosecutor. In 2000, Dr Reynolds was deployed to East Timor as the principle legal officer attached to the United Nations War Crimes Unit. Upon returning to WA he was posted to Forensic Field Operations ultimately taking up the position of Case File Supervisor (Homicide) responsible for providing administrative and technical oversight on all forensic homicide investigations across WA. Between May 2004 and April 2006 and February 2008 to January 2009, Dr Reynolds was also the WAP Forensic Manager for the scientific discipline of Bloodstain Pattern Analysis (BPA).
Dr Reynolds holds the National Diploma in Crime Scene Investigation, a BSc (Biology), a MS (FSc) and PhD (BPA). In October 2005 he was elected Vice President for IABPA Region VI (Australia, New Zealand, SE Asia and Pacific Rim) and in November 2005, joined the FBI’s Scientific Working Group on Bloodstain Pattern Analysis (SWGSTAIN), the first member to that group from the Southern Hemisphere. Between 2004 and 2010, Dr Reynolds sat on Australia’s NATA Field and Identification Sciences Proficiency Review Committee and as such, was required on an annual basis, to review all BPA proficiency tests Australia wide. In 2007 he was elected inaugural chair of Australia’s NIFS Scientific Working Group on BPA. Dr Reynolds has been involved in more than 120 cases that have required the examination, interpretation and reporting of bloodstains or bloodstain patterns. Dr Reynolds has undertaken training, delivered training or provided casework support in the USA, Canada, Brunei, Singapore, New Zealand and all states of Australia. He has also been accepted by the New South Wales Supreme Court and Western Australia’s Coroners Court, District Court, Supreme Court and Court of Criminal Appeal as an expert in BPA.
In 2009 Dr Reynolds accepted an unsworn position with WAP as a Forensic Science Consultant. Whilst having many new roles and responsibilities, including providing advice on protracted and/or complex forensic matters, representing WAP at national and international forensic forums and as an academic mentor in the WA Police Executive Development Program, collectively they describe Dr Reynolds as a manager of quality assurance ensuring that all WAP forensic processes are underpinned by ‘good’ science.