Department of Criminal Procedure and Criminalistics, Faculty of Law and Administration, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Poland Regional Prosecutor's Office in Łódź, Poland.
Arch Med Sadowej Kryminol. 2020;70(2-3):136-148. doi: 10.5114/amsik.2020.104178.
This article deals with the problematic aspects relating to aviation crash victim identification in Poland and the specific nature of participation of a forensic medicine expert in activities undertaken as part of an external examination group and a Disaster Victim Identification (DVI) team. It describes in a concise manner the course of the process of identification of the victims' bodies, beginning with the actions undertaken at the incident site and ending with the public prosecutor's decision to allow for the interment of dead bodies or human remains. It presents a catalogue of identification methods by grouping them from the most credible ones to the ones that merely suggest the victim's identity. It concisely describes the tasks faced by the forensic pathologist, who plays a double role at a crash site, i.e. as a member of an external examination group and of a DVI team.
本文探讨了波兰航空事故遇难者身份识别方面存在的问题，以及法医专家在作为外部调查组和灾难遇难者身份识别（DVI）团队成员参与相关活动时的特殊性质。文中简明扼要地描述了遇难者遗体身份识别过程的流程，从事故现场的行动开始，一直到检察官决定允许埋葬尸体或遗体为止。文中还通过对识别方法进行分类，从最可信的方法到仅提示受害者身份的方法，列出了一个识别方法目录。文中还简要描述了法医病理学家在事故现场所面临的任务，他们在现场扮演着双重角色，既是外部调查组的成员，也是 DVI 团队的成员。
