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Codes of conduct and practice for forensic science providers and practitioners in the criminal justice system.
Automated rapid DNA systems can include portable devices that can produce STR DNA profile results in under 2 hours for a small number of samples per run.
Notification on the changes to the code FSA definition and FSA specific requirements for FSA–MTP 101 – friction ridge detail: comparison, and public consultation.
Guidance for the assessment, collection and recording of forensic science related evidence in sexual assault examinations.
This guidance sets out the general approach for the validation of software with specific focus on the requirements for DNA mixture interpretation.
Protocol for forensic science providers and practitioners covers the management and use of staff elimination DNA databases.
Notification on the the Forensic Science Regulator's lessons learnt review on quality failure in s5A drugs driving analysis.
The regulator commissioned advice on the interpretation of DNA evidence.
Guidance on the validation requirements of the search and comparison algorithm and the method in which it is deployed.
Guidance on analysis and reporting in relation to offences under s5A Road Traffic Act 1988 (drug driving).
Standards and guidance for those forensic practitioners providing relationship testing services using autosomal DNA short tandem repeat profiling.
Guidance on using legal limits in the prosecution of drug-driving offences.
Guidance on the content of reports issued by expert witnesses in the Criminal Justice System in England and Wales.
This document sets out the process for urgent legal classification of firearms.
The Forensic Science Regulator publishes lessons that can be learnt from quality failings.
The Forensic Science Regulator has issued guidance to practitioners on making public comments on any case in which they have been involved.
The importance of forensic science to the courts
Guidance on the process to create joint expert statements under Part 19.6 of the Criminal Procedure Rules.
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