26 June 2017
Academics at King’s Forensics are building on a 15-year relationship with the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) as part of a new partnership that will set a unique approach for forensics in the UK.
Academics at King’s Forensics are building on a 15-year relationship with the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) as part of a new partnership that will set a unique approach for forensics in the UK.
This alliance will help ensure that we remain at the cutting edge of forensic research and complex casework, while delivering a world-class education to future forensic scientists.
Dr Barbara Daniel, Head of King’s Forensics
The team are helping to deliver real solutions to forensic challenges faced by investigators through cutting edge research, in partnership with LGC. King’s Forensics will also work on bespoke, complex case work and analysis of evidence for the MPS.
Research to be delivered through the partnership includes the innovative ‘Light it Up’ project, which aims to revolutionise the way traces of biological evidence such as blood or saliva are found and identified at crime scenes. The research will investigate the use of human antibodies and magnetic nanoparticles to collect traces of evidence that are usually challenging to extract
Other projects will include complex DNA analysis, evidence interpretation and fingerprint detection.
Dr Barbara Daniel, the academic lead at King’s Forensics said: ‘Here at King’s Forensics, we work across three main areas of activity – research (e.g. explosives, DNA and drug analysis, analytical toxicology), casework (e.g. crime scene investigation and complex relationship testing) and education. This alliance will help ensure that we remain at the cutting edge of forensic research and complex casework, while delivering a world-class education to future forensic scientists.’
We have a long standing relationship with King’s that has allowed us to conduct joint research projects and access to the most recent innovations in science and technology to tackle crime and keep London safe
Mr Gary Pugh OBE, Director of Forensic Services at the MPS
Mr Gary Pugh OBE, Director of Forensic Services at the Metropolitan Police Service and Honorary Fellow of King’s College London said: ’We have a long standing relationship with King’s that has allowed us to conduct joint research projects and access to the most recent innovations in science and technology to tackle crime and keep London safe’.
The state-of-the-art laboratories at King’s Forensics (DNA analysis at King’s and Drug Control Centre) make King’s not only a world-famous academic centre but one with two fully accredited casework laboratories. They house the latest and most effective technologies for the recovery of toxicological evidence and analysis; DNA profiling; fingerprinting and novel matrices testing.
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