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News Release from: LGC | Subject: Chemical, biochemical and forensic analysis
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 20 August 2003
Crime Scene DNA Analysed by LGC
LGC has confirmed its recent success in winning an initial Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) contract to analyse the Met's crime scene DNA samples to 2006.
LGC, the UK's leading independent analytical laboratory providing chemical, biochemical and forensic analysis, has confirmed its recent success in winning an initial Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) contract to analyse the Met's crime scene DNA samples to 2006 Nick Claxton, Head of LGC's Forensics Division, said: "The analysis of DNA recovered from a crime scene is now a vital component of any forensic investigation and the Met is setting new standards for fast and reliable turnaround times for the large number of samples it collects
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 15 Jun 2005 at 8.00am (UK)
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LGC is therefore delighted to have won this important contract, in the first competitive tender of its kind by the MPS, and will be bringing imaginative new approaches to ensuring that the Met receives its results within days." In addition to stains of blood, semen or saliva, pulled or shed hair, or flakes of skin, LGC will receive a range of crime scene samples from the Met - from cigarette ends to clothing - that can then be tested for the presence of body fluids or hair.
Any DNA present, even from skin cells or sweat from jewellery or from tools found at the scene, will then be extracted at LGC's scene of crime DNA laboratory in Teddington before undergoing a series of processes to produce and report the DNA profile to the National DNA Database to identify any matched suspects to the Met.
Nick Claxton added: "We have recently augmented LGC's Teddington crime scene facility with a new scene of crime DNA service at our Runcorn laboratory.
The numbers of police forces coming to LGC for their forensic analysis is growing - be it for DNA or other forensic analysis covering seizures of drugs, computers, mobile phones or questioned documents for investigation, or samples for toxicology analysis.
We are now looking forward to developing a mutually fruitful relationship with the Met in the coming months.".
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