“Modern forensic laboratories will contribute to the collection of trace information and the detection of crimes” - Maxim Tsuckiridze
Mobile specialized laboratories based on Fiat Ducato cars, equipped according to European standards and equipped with modern forensic equipment, measuring instruments and equipment were received by the departments of forensic support of investigative departments in six regions — Dnipropetrovsk, Kyiv-Odessa, Poltava, Kharkiv and Chernihiv. Certificates for the car were presented yesterday, May 25, by the Deputy Head of the National Police of Ukraine - the head of the Main Investigation Department Maxim Tsuckiridze.
According to the deputy head of the National Police, almost 400 thousand serious and especially serious criminal offenses are recorded every year, which are mostly committed in conditions of invisibility.
“A key role, in addition to the investigative and operational units operating at the scene, is played by forensic support units. They use modern possibilities to recreate the situation that served to commit the crime, finding those evidence of a trace picture, which, unfortunately, is not visible to the naked eye,” said Maxim Tsutskuridze.
The Deputy Head of the National Police said that since 2017, nine regional units and the Main Investigation Department of the National Police have already received modern mobile forensic laboratories and are successfully applying them in their work.
Today, such modern mobile laboratories have received six more largest regions - Dnipropetrovsk, Kiev, Kharkiv, Odessa, Poltava and Chernihiv. These cars are equipped with unified forensic suitcases, including ballistic, biological and tracological. In addition, protective tents are provided to preserve the appropriate trail picture, optical and lighting equipment, as well as quadrocopters for remote photo, video fixation of the terrain, situation and circumstances of the event, search for people, objects at long distances and in hard-to-reach places.
As noted by the Deputy Head of the National Police, such powerful material and technical support of mobile forensic laboratories allows at a professional level, promptly and qualitatively to fulfill the official tasks assigned to the forensic specialists of the investigative units - technical and forensic support of search operations, detection, fixation and retrieval attraction of trace information.
“Today we are handing over modern forensic laboratories so that in their areas of service they can respond qualitatively, properly to all crimes committed and successfully solve them. I hope that this forensic technique will really become an auxiliary factor in the work,” said Maxim Tsuckiridze.
Department of Communications of the National Police of Ukraine
