Technical Note Released on National Institute of Justice Forensic DNA Unit Efficiency Improvement Program

A 2009 NIJ Forensic DNA Unit EIP solicitation provided crime laboratories' DNA testing services with a funding opportunity to meet increasingly numerous requests from the criminal justice community. The 2009 EIP encouraged crime laboratories to implement novel ideas and processes that would provide a measurable, significant and sustainable way to meet the needs of national DNA programs. This November 2018 Technical Note focuses on the final outcomes of an award received by the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office. NIJ support of an approved and implemented plan involving interagency cooperation between three jurisdictional law enforcement agencies within Palm Beach County resulted in the successful and efficient establishment of a centralized biological pre-screening laboratory for DNA evidence prior to submission to the county's forensic laboratory for DNA testing. 

Read the Technical Note on this program, produced by the NIJ Forensic Technology Center of Excellence, at https://forensiccoe.org/eip-forensic-dna-report-2018/.