I have just read his interview with CAL - in 1985, he was undertaking a course on police photography and chemical treatments - the Bamber case was only the SECOND time he had fulfilled the role as a photographer! Specialist?
The last Scene of Crime officers arrived. Detective Inspector Ron Cook joined the police in 1958 and became a fingerprint officer in 1964. Seventeen years later he was promoted to Detective Inspector and was one of two deputies working at SOCO in Chelmsford under DCI Charles ‘Geordie’ Wright. Cook was accompanied by Detective Constable David Bird, who joined the force in 1976, working on murder photography and chemical treatments as part of a crime scene investigation course. The Bamber case was his second as photographer while he was engaged on the lab treatment. Along with Chris Bews and Taff Jones, Bird had recently worked on the Bull murder in Coggeshall. When told at headquarters to collect five post-mortem kits for White House Farm, he assumed it was a wind-up: ‘Then I looked at the superintendent’s face and saw
Lee, Carol Ann. The Murders at White House Farm: Jeremy Bamber and the killing of his family. The definitive investigation. (pp. 179-180). Pan Macmillan. Kindle Edition.
Your evidence as usual doesn't support the assertions that you make.
It is also worth noting that your earlier claims have all but evaporated to be replaced, not quite seamlessly, with your new inaccurate interpretations. Previously you have claimed that Bird wasn't a specialist;
Both of the following statements are yours made earlier in this thread.
"back then they didn't do a specific course."
"Does nine weeks make you a specialist? Well, it's not even nine weeks really as photography is only PART of the course and Bird didn't even do the course( it wasn't a requirement back then)"
Now you claim that he was undertaking a course in 1985 and that because it was supposedly only the second time he had fulfilled the role of photographer that this calls into question his role as a specialist.
From the quote given it appears that Bird was undertaking the course in 1976 when he joined EP but as usual you have given only part of it.
Likewise the claim of it being only his second time fulfilling the role is unclear from what you have posted but regardless of this, at what point do you become a specialist? Perhaps if we put back into context the original notes that you posted. Here is a more informative and complete section of the COLP interview including the excerpts that you posted earlier:
Supt. McKay: And with the greatest respect to you you were there as a photographer
PC Bird: I was down at the other end of the command chain, so to speak. Well I was, there's
nobody lower than me, the van driver and the photographer
Supt. McKay: And then ...
DS Young: Actually could I clarify that bit. Am I right in saying that it's actual your, when you were
headquarters, it was your specialist role for major incidents.
PC Bird: There was three of us as that specialist role.
Supt. McKay: Of taking photographs
PC Bird: Yeah
DS Young: Of major incidents
PC Bird: We do all the chemical treatment at headquarters and as and when a major incident
come up that they required a photographer we was on a rota basis the three of us, and
it was just the luck of the draw which one you get.
Supt. McKay: Was that sort of 24 hour cover was it David
PC Bird: Yeah we took it in turns to provide a 24 hour cover.
DS Young: Thank you
I think you are out on a limb with this one and we are left to wonder why you didn't post the entire section. The following also by you:
Nothing wrong with my comprehension but YOU, like the video are exaggerating the guys qualifications. The man was a POLICE OFFICER NOT A PHOTOGRAPHER and PHOTOGRAPHY WAS NOT HIS MAIN JOB. Unless you are blind, unable to read or making an attempt to deliberately have people believe he was a professional photographer - he states this in his interview! You're the one misinterpreting NO WHERE does it state that he is a specialist or a professional photographer.
Why did you make this misleading statement?
The excerpt that I have transcribed above must have been read by you because you posted snippets from it. There is an extended conversation about his "specialist" role and an explanation of the 24 hour cover. You deny that it is ever stated that he is a specialist which demonstrates your poor comprehension or something else maybe.
