CSI Dundee gets £23m laboratory

CSI Dundee gets £23m laboratory

Crime scene investigation (CSI) in Scotland has received a major boost with the opening of a £23 million forensic laboratory. In this facility you can find a special room for blood pattern analysis, the DNA database lab and a DNA robot that tests for links between suspects and crime scenes. There are special rooms that have been fitted with black magnetic walls so that car parts can be attached to them rather than laid on the floor. Tom Nelson, director of forensic services at the Scottish Police Services Authority, said: “The new facility provides our experts with a custom-built working environment that fits their specific needs but that is also adaptable to changing demands. The laboratories and enhanced facilities will allow us to take forensic science to a new level.

Source: Retrieved June 7th, 2010
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/scotland/article7145208.ece

My reaction: The necessity for a CSI laboratory has become part of our world or so it seems. On television and in the newspaper all we hear and read is a disappearance here or another murder there. I do belief that though the cost, of this apparently high – tech building, it is a necessity in the world as we know it today, especially if this might help us with more crimes being solved.