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FSL head admits SA’s DNA backlog is at 172,787
During the meeting of the National Forensic Oversight Ethics Board and the Portfolio Committee on Police, the head of the Forensic Science Laboratory (FSL), Major General Edward Ngokha, this morning confirmed that the current DNA
Forensic DNA system has been down for almost a year
The forensic science laboratory’s (FSL) electronic registry system, which manages evidence for DNA analysis, has been down for almost a year. “Obviously this has an enormous impact on the handing over and processing of DNA
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