Services
Overview
LGC Forensics offers the fullest range of high
quality forensic services, providing powerful assistance to those
investigating or re-investigating criminal cases or involved in
settling civil or private disputes, providing expert evidence to
the courts where required.
Working closely with each of our customers, we
mix and match examination and testing regimes to provide the most
appropriate, prompt and cost-effective solutions. These
include packages for routine testing as well as one-off, tailor
made programmes.
LGC Forensics services cover:
- 24/7
advice and practical help – including call-outs to assist at
scenes of crime and other incidents and call-ins for urgent testing
in our laboratories
- Detailed examination of items and samples
from people, vehicles and places for all kinds of marks, and all
types of chemical and biological
traces
- A comprehensive array of forensic DNA techniques enabling profiling of samples
however small or degraded
- E-crime involving
mobile phones, computers and other electronic devices, and questioned documents
- Firearms and
ballistics - as part of the National Firearms Centre in conjunction
with the Royal Armouries
- Toxicology and
forensic pathology, anthropology and archaeology
- All aspects of drugs of
abuse.
- Paternity
Testing
As a one-stop forensic shop with a unique
blend of skill, knowledge and flair for forensics, we are able to
recognise and exploit all forensic opportunities – however
unexpected, and present properly robust, coordinated
conclusions.
LGC Forensics’ services include:
24/7 services
LGC Forensics operates a round-the-clock
service, 365 days a year, providing telephone advice and guidance
and practical help across the full range of our scientific
activities.
Advice covers everything from strategic
guidance in specific operations to information about the most
effective way to recover particular samples from crime scenes or
the best conditions in which to store them pending submission for
testing. We can also advise whether it would be helpful to call a
scientist out to a scene or how quickly an urgent test could be
performed.
Practical help includes:
- Call-outs – usually where scientists attend crime scenes to
assist investigators on site
- Call-ins – where scientists return to their laboratories for
out-of-hours testing of urgent samples, to meet custody time limits
for example.