Forensic laboratory delayed indefinitely over lack of tenders
Minister says no developer wants to take on the €60m construction, as currently envisaged
DNA database proving a ‘very valuable’ intelligence tool
Profiles of over 9,000 people uploaded to system by the end of last year, FSI says
State’s forensic scientists get modern lab after 40-year wait
Minister turns sod on new premises and praises scientists and DNA database
Investigators now able to link DNA to suspect in 20% of crimes
More than 530 offences linked to specific individuals in first year of new database
New forensics lab set to bring DNA analysis to international levels
Work on €60 million facility to begin later this year in Co Kildare
Why forensic evidence may not be as certain as we’d like to think it is
Forensic evidence can be open to the same subjectivity that affects other types of evidence
Shortage of funding for staff and facilities creates forensics in crisis
Immediate investment is needed in DNA testing and in other forms of forensics to avoid a catastrophe
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