Statistics released by MEC for Transport, Community Safety and Liaison Peggy Nkonyeni showed that KwaZulu-Natal has thousands of DNA forensic cases dating back as far as February 2020.
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Regional forensic hubs helping solve crimes quicker and keeping frontline police on streets
Forensic hubs in Ballarat and Morwell are providing regional investigators with enhanced crime solving facilities on their doorstep, leading to quicker suspect identification and arrests for serious offences such as burglaries, thefts, and drug related crime.
The regional forensic hubs, which opened almost two years ago in May 2019, offer a comprehensive range of forensic testing services for police in regional areas, as well as rapid processing turnaround times for recovery of forensic evidence which is helping fast-track investigations.
Since opening, the forensic hubs have employed a new approach centred around multi-disciplinary evidence recovery, with staff trained to identify and extract a range of different types of forensic evidence. across a range of evidence-types.
Expert officers have been equipped with state-of-the-art 3D scanners worth £160,000 to help them investigate fatalities on the region’s roads. Exposed to the elements and under immense time-pressures to examine the scene of a collision for the smallest speck of evidence, our forensic officers do an incredibly challenging job. Now, the team of officers based in our Forensic Services Department, have received a boost to their investigative capacity as the Force invests in a fleet of new laser scanners which allow them to map a vehicle, or an area and create a virtual 3D representation – preserving evidential clues long after a road re-opens.
EXPERT officers have been equipped with the 3D scanners worth £160,000 to help them investigate fatalities on the region’s roads. Exposed to the elements and under immense time-pressures to examine the scene of a collision for the smallest speck of evidence, forensic officers do a challenging job. Now, the team of officers based in Northumbria Police s Forensic Services Department, have received a boost to their investigative capacity as the force invests in a fleet of new laser scanners which allow them to map a vehicle, or an area and create a virtual 3D representation – preserving evidential clues long after a road re-opens.