What are the roles and responsibilities for Forensic Scientist?

• A forensic scientist collects, identifies, classifies, and analyzes physical evidence related to criminal investigations. 
• Collect evidence from crime scenes and stores it in conditions that preserve its integrity. 
• Perform tests on weapons or substances, such as fibre, hair, and tissue to determine significance to investigation. 
• They may testify as expert witnesses on evidence or crime laboratory techniques. They may serve as specialists in the area of expertise, such as ballistics, fingerprinting, handwriting, or biochemistry.
• Keep records and prepare reports detailing findings, investigative methods, and laboratory techniques. 
• Testify in court about investigative or analytical methods or findings. 
• Use photographic or video equipment to document evidence of crime scenes. 
• Visit morgues, examine scenes of crimes, or contact other sources to obtain evidence or information to be used in investigations. 
• Reconstruct crime scenes to determine relationships among pieces of evidence. 
• Operate and maintain laboratory equipment and apparatus. 
• Confer with ballistics, fingerprinting, handwriting, documents, electronics, medical, chemical, or metallurgical experts concerning evidence and its interpretation. 
• Prepare solutions and sample formulations needed for laboratory work. 
• Use chemicals or other substances to examine latent fingerprint evidence.
• Compare developed prints to those of known persons in databases.