Trish Lannigan

Patricia (Trish) Larrigan Operational Forensic Manager, Metropolitan Police Service. 1984 - Joined the Fingerprint Bureau at New Scotland Yard as a trainee Fingerprint Officer. My career has seen me achieve Fingerprint Expert status, be trained in crime scene examination, serve 5 years with Counter Terrorism and then become a Crime Scene Manager (now OFM) when the role was civilianised. I was one of the first CSMs when the role was officially created in 2001 and the role has been developed by the people doing it – there was no playbook! In the 25 years since becoming and OFM, I have taken part in the investigation into hundreds of Homicides, Unexpected Deaths and many other serious crime incidents. Assignments of Note: - 2005 – OFM support to the Resilience Mortuary dealing with the post-mortem examinations of the fatalities from the July 7th London bombings. 2008 - Published in the Journal of Forensic Identification as a result of innovative work that was “live trialled” at an arson-d