MOSCOW. Dec 4 (Interfax) - Russian Investigative Committee chairman Alexander Bastrykin has seen state-of-the-art forensic equipment capable of finding a specific person in the crowd among other things during his visit to France, Investigative Committee spokesperson Svetlana Petrenko said.
"The delegation of the Russian Investigative Committee headed by Bastrykin visited the National Police College in the town of St. Cyr and the Central Service of Technical and Scientific Police in the city of Ecully at an invitation of the French Interior Ministry," Petrenko told Interfax.
The parties discussed several issues, including the exchange of expert experience and cooperation in the scientific and educational field, she said.
"During a meeting at the Central Service of Technical and Scientific Police, French representatives demonstrated to their colleagues from the Russian Investigative Committee the technical potential available to them," Petrenko said.
In particular, Russian investigators saw the technology of organizing and conducting an examination of incident scenes, detecting, recording and seizing signs of crime and physical evidence, video recording in the 360 degrees format, identifying a specific person in a mass gathering of people, as well as the remote access to digital information, she said.
Bastykin also held negotiations with Interpol Secretary General Jurgen Stock in its headquarters in Lyon, Petrenko said.