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2010 - January 11
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News around the globe
Stress-related illness caused by garda forensics officers attending gruesome crime scenes and other staffing issues are contributing to historic delays in processing evidence in major investigations, according to gardai.
Wisconsin
The state lab that tests the blood of suspected intoxicated drivers for drugs is facing a backlog of nearly 1,000 samples and mounting that threatens public safety, officials say.
Iowa lawmaker open to more DNA sampling Iowa
Secrets from the grave might help close some unsolved Iowa criminal cases, but collecting DNA samples from homicide victims likely would raise civil liberties concerns.
Hawaii
The new lab is expected to help speed up the analysis of 208 boxes of remains — representing 300 to 400 service members — that North Korea turned over to the U.S. from 1990-94 and are known as “K-208.” According to a survey conducted by Ashford MP and shadow immigration minister Damian Green, Kent Police accepted requests from 13 of the 36 people who wanted their DNA profiles destroyed after being arrested but then released without charge.
DNA solves just one in 150 crimes
UK Of the 4.9 million crimes recorded by the police each year, just 33,000 – or 0.67 per cent – are solved directly as a result of a DNA match, according to Chris Sims, who speaks for chief constables on the issue. Police have stopped testing notes for traces of the drug in criminal investigations as the contamination is so widespread.
In the last six months of 2009, state lab analysts were subpoenaed to testify in courts across the state in 5,651 drug cases. In 2008, before the ruling, those requests came in by the dozen per month, not by the hundreds.
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