News
03-April-2007 - Metropolitan Police Service to award more
homicide work to growing independent forensic service provider
Metropolitan Police Service rewards LGC Forensics for results
and quality of work
LGC Forensics, the UK’s largest independent provider of forensic
services to the police, is to be awarded further work from the
Metropolitan Police Service. The company currently works with a
number of major forces throughout England and Wales in addition to
the Metropolitan Police, providing the entire forensic science
requirement for some of them including the Thames Valley and Surrey
police forces. The new work for the Metropolitan Police Service is
in the area of homicide investigation and will increase LGC
Forensics involvement from a third to half of all the force’s
homicides.
The award of this additional work demonstrates the Metropolitan
Police’s appreciation of the quality and level of service provided
by LGC Forensics and the outstanding success that this has achieved
both in general homicide investigation and the solving of cold
cases.
Dr Angela Gallop, Director of LGC Forensics, said: “We are
very proud of the effective working relationships we have been able
to establish with investigators and the courts and the critical
part LGC Forensics has been able to play in solving some of the
country’s most complex and intractable cases such as the murder of
Damilola Taylor. We are therefore grateful for this opportunity to
extend our highly successful investigative partnership with the
Metropolitan Police Service and to continue our development of
innovative ways of applying science in support of murder
investigations.”
In expanding the size of its forensic operation in line with
customer demand, LGC Forensics has opened a new suite of search
laboratories in Runcorn, launched a specialist firearms facility
within the Royal Armouries in Leeds, and created new
state-of-the-art DNA laboratories in Teddington. Further
development in the scope and scale of its forensic capability is
underway across its six UK laboratory sites.
LGC Forensics also recently launched a unique pathology service,
Forensic Pathology Alliance, in conjunction with Forensic Pathology
Services – the largest group of forensic pathologists in the UK.
This groundbreaking initiative exploits the synergies and overlaps
between forensic science and forensic pathology and helps to ensure
that the technical and medical aspects - particularly of homicide
investigation, are properly joined up and make the maximum
contribution to the investigative effort.
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