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I would interested in hearing how you justify taking on this client if you have to ask in a public forum how to do the job?

Or am I looking at this from a naive public servant perspective?

H

Yep, a naive public servant perspective.

You must post up your contact details so forum members can recommend your service.

H

I'm not sure those comments are entirely called for - I don't think it's all that unusual for a client engagement to require at least some expansion of a skillset. As long as the practitioner is competent (in a broad sense), surely a desire to hear "thoughts, comments and investigative methodologies" on a specific issue from fellow professionals is a sensible thing to express?

I'm not sure those comments are entirely called for

OK, I have posed a question that was not very subtle and could have been phrased more diplomatically. My normal response to posts like this is simply not to engage and just read the next thread. I have seen other long-standing members slapped for saying what I too have been thinking.

By "posts like this" I mean
- poster just joins to ask a question, no prior involvement, not lurked,
- anonymous
- not posted in accordance with your guidelines "Describe the general context of the situation, explain something about your own background or experience …" "Say what you've already done to answer the question or solve the problem …."
- it is either can you do my homework or I have taken on a job but don't know how to do it

However in this case an anonymous finger was poking in my back saying go on respond. Maybe I have just had too many recent personal experiences where persons offering professional services have failed to offer them with their advertised professional knowledge and skills. Maybe recently I have seen too many people preparing to give evidence about something that is just way beyond their level of knowledge.

I am willing to help anyone and have had lengthy correspondence with various students around the world that you have passed on to me regarding research topics. I am not the forum police, you obviously are, but I am a member of the public who wants to see people offer services that they are proficient to offer. I am also a member of the DF community and I believe we should at times challenge people by saying are you sure you should be undertaking the investigation you are doing rather than colluding with them.

While I was managing a police HTCU we once had a defence examiner that had been instructed to look at one of our cases and when they got more details of the case they demurred because the case was related to an Apple Mac computer. The person was an experienced DF examiner and could probably have worked their way through the case but offered it to someone who would be better able to serve the client. I appreciate that level of professional integrity.

Maybe I will just revert to reading the next thread.

H

I don't disagree with the substance of any of those points, H - I appreciate where you're coming from and share your concerns. However, I also don't think new members should be met with hostility or sarcasm - they need to get a few more posts under their belt before they earn that right wink

@TechCrime - the point is well made about providing more background detail…

Jamie, thanks for stepping in.

As someone who respects this forum, I totally agree more background info would of been helpful, but unfortunately in this instance that's all the info I had at the time of posting through a 3rd party. I've been off the tools for a while and was just floating a question.

In any case, to save time and a potential migraine listening to 'H' I will withdraw my question.

Cheers to all.
(Former Public Servant AND Professional Services)

….I will withdraw my question.
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Hmmm…
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