91热爆

Community reporter Jonathan Swingler

It looks like an ordinary house, quite a boring one at that.

There's a kids room with not a lot in it, a very small bathroom and a sizeable living room and every so often you pass a wall covered in plastic sheeting.... which is there to protect the walls from blood.

They use real human blood, the stuff the blood donor service can't use and as Dr Julie Mennell, head of the department is giving me a tour, "We do use blood occasionally and sparingly, but we do like to protect the walls."

Inside one room that's set up to look like an alcoholics dream with whisky bottles lining the walls is a cupboard stacked with cameras.

"The students have Nikon FM 2... the standard issue camera", says tutor Julie Edgar opening one of the cases to reveal a box of tricks the trainee forensic scientists get to play with.

Not only do the students master the art of taking pictures of crime scenes but they become experts in getting finger prints.

And new courses are on the way at this Teesside University department.

Angus Marshall is an expert in digital evidence and is launching a degree that starts in September.

He knows a thing or two about computer hacking and getting information off mobile phones that their owners probably thought had safely been deleted.

I ask him if any of his students end up working for MI5.

Dr Julie Mennell from Teesside Uni

He laughs, "I don't think I can answer that question. I know where some of them go and it's a very interesting place."

On Wednesday June 8th the centre is officially launched and the staff here talk of forensic scientists from all over the world benefiting from the work done here.

Scientists from the 91热爆 Office and crime experts from across Europe are visiting in the hope that people working together will find more advanced ways of catching criminals, and police officers from almost every force in the country are descending on Middlesbrough to take advantage of what it can offer.

If you become a student here it's not CSI Miami by a long stretch, blood splattered walls (if you like that kind of thing) are infrequent and you're more likely to be spending hours dusting a window for finger prints, but it's kind of nice to know this interesting place is on our door step.