Oakland County Crime Lab Wants to Start DNA Testing

Oakland County Crime Lab has recently been ASCLD-LAB cer­ti­fied. They claim that as a result they can apply for fed­eral grants. They could always apply, ASCLD-LAB doesn’t have con­trol over fed­eral grant money, yet.

The Michigan State Police Crime Lab is right to seem­ingly question “why?”

DNA, like trace analy­sis, is a dis­ci­pline of foren­sic since generally

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Unsecured Ammunition in Condemned Detroit Crime Lab

Even if there were no “sealed evi­dence kits” lay­ing around, the case files and live ammu­ni­tion should have been col­lected when Detroit PD crime lab vacated the building.

Detroit Police Chief Ralph Godbee Jr. said today that there was no evi­dence left behind in the closed Detroit Police Crime Lab on Brush Street, this after the Free

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Detroit Getting New Crime Lab

It appears the Detroit Police Department has been “pun­ished” enough, and the leg­is­la­ture has funded a brand new crime lab.

The police crime lab planned for the pro­posed Detroit police and fire head­quar­ters received fund­ing from the Legislature early Friday, putting it at least one step ahead of the entire project that is to occupy the for­mer MGM

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Detroit Crime Lab to Re-open?

The Detroit Crime Lab might be re-opening. If it does, it will be under the Michigan State Police, not Detroit PD.

If city offi­cials open a crime lab in a new police head­quar­ters, the facil­ity won’t be staffed by Detroit police.

Detroit police tell the Detroit Free Press for a story Tuesday that Michigan State Police will

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$1Million Outlay to Investigate Questioned Detroit Crime Lab Evidence

The City of Detroit will be pay­ing $1 Million to Wayne County Prosecutor’s Office to have one year’s worth of evi­dence inves­ti­gated. That’s a lot of money. This is the per­fect exam­ple of why it is bet­ter to pay a lit­tle extra up front, to have a suf­fi­cient num­ber of prop­erly trained lab­o­ra­tory analysts,

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