“I am not a gamer.
Other than Candy Crush, I don't play anything.
But I know a lot of people in a big ministry.
“For three weeks, Camille Chaize, spokesperson for the Ministry of the Interior, launches on Twitch, this platform usually popular with video game specialists.
Violence against women, legislation on weapons, police violence ...
Every Thursday, at midday, the police commissioner discusses the themes of Beauvau "in complete freedom" with a small community of Internet users, for the time being still confidential, who ask their questions live.
“It's different from a TV show, there we have a real interaction with the public, notes Camille Chaize, it's a bit as if we were around a coffee.
They are introduced to experts that they would not otherwise have the opportunity to meet.
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Live at the center of the central digital forensics laboratory
That Thursday, Camille Chaize invited herself to Ecully (Rhône), at the headquarters of the famous scientific police, where dozens of investigations are resolved each year thanks to the sciences and techniques that are developed there. At his side, facing Internet users, Pierre Pascaud, Chief of Staff of the forensic science, to deconstruct “the immense collective imagination” that surrounds the discipline.
In the central digital forensics laboratory, where the phones, computers and other gadgets of the accused or the victims are dismantled and meticulously dissected by technicians, Camille Chaize and Pierre Pascaud sit in front of the webcam.
Behind them, an electronics platform, a 3D printer, a laminar flow hood, which allows the opening of the hard disks without altering them.
In the background, a wink is even addressed to the most trained and knowledgeable minds ...
A question-and-answer session
It's gone, Camille and Pierre Pascaud are online and Internet users are connecting little by little.
They will be 41 at most that day.
And already the first questions are coming out.
Some more technical than others: “How long do you store samples?
As long as the prescription of the offense runs?
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Pierre and Camille go on: automated genotyping line, odorology, digital crime scene reconstruction, parentage DNA ... Commissioner Pascaud presents the "easels" these little yellow cones placed near clues on crime scenes or again the “Crime Lite”, this torch which allows to highlight the slightest traces and stains left on crime scenes and invisible to the naked eye.
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The question-and-answer session is led by a playful Camille Chaize, “Fred and Jamie” style, sometimes even pretending to be more neophyte in the matter than it really is.
Examples of investigations are given, the crime scenes of Charlie Hebdo or the Strasbourg attack mentioned.
"You can sift the ashes of a burnt car to reappear traces that have disappeared", explains Pierre Pascaud.
An Internet user then dares: “So what is the best thing to do with the vehicle?
“Obviously, there is no question of revealing everything and informing the public about the techniques allowing to escape the investigators…
The "quest" for clues drives the technicians
Also swept away the fantasies mainly nourished by the American series: “We do not have a competent expert in all areas.
Everyone has their own specialty ”, corrects Pierre Pascaud, who nevertheless advises the American“ The Wire ”and the French“ Paris Police 1900 ”.
Finally, it is the recruitment that the two police officers approach and particularly the competitions which allow access to the professions of forensic science.
Commissioner Pascaud then evokes this "quest" for clues that drives the technicians, often first responders at crime scenes.
On Thursday, May 27, Face Cam will be live on Twitch and Fun Radio, starting at 10 p.m. ET.
Camille Chaize will discuss the concepts of consent, control and harassment.
