crime labs

What lab section/service handles

• Identifying bodily fluids

• DNA analysis

Biology

What lab section/service handles

• Determining presence, absence, and amount of drugs and poisons in bodily fluids and organs

• Blood alcohol

Toxicology

What lab section/service handles

• Examining firearms, ammunition, gunshot residue

• Tool marks/impressions of other tools

Firearms

What lab section/service handles

• Process and examine laten fingerprints

Friction Ridge analysis

What lab section/service handles

• Identifying and sometimes quantify illicit substances in samples ceased by law-enforcement

Seized drugs

What lab section/service handles

• Analysis and comparison of hair fibers, paint, glass, gunshot, residue, impressions, fire debris, etc.

Trace

What lab section/service handles

• Examining digital devices and multimedia

Digital

What lab section/service handles

• Analysis of writing, printing, and alterations

• Analysis of paper and ink

Questioned Documents

What lab service deals with

• lie detectors

Polygraph

What lab service deals with

• Use for cases involving telephones threats or tape recorded messages to tie the voice to a particular suspect

voiceprint analysis

What lab service deals with

• Use of digital imaging, infrared, ultraviolet, and x-ray photography, to record physical evidence and/or make invisible information visible to the naked eye

Photography