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How to control and avoid contamination in laboratory activities involving DNA evidence recovery and analysis.
Revised codes of practice and conduct for forensic science providers and practitioners in the criminal justice system.
Guidance on the requirements for method validation in the codes of practice and conduct.
Notification on the Forensic Science Regulator’s press release following Greater Manchester Police’s statement of 29 November 2024 concerning suspected data manipulation at Randox Testing Services and Trimega Laboratories.
Provides further explanation of some of the requirements of the codes related to speech and audio analysis.
Appendix to the codes of practice for forensic science providers covering video analysis.
The regulator’s DNA specialist group has produced allele frequency databases and reporting guidance for DNA profiling.
Guidance on analysis and reporting in relation to offences under s5A Road Traffic Act 1988 (drug driving).
The Forensic Science Regulator publishes lessons that can be learnt from quality failings.
The importance of forensic science to the courts
Guidance on the content of non-expert technical statements within the Criminal Justice System in England and Wales.
Notification on the broad risks the Regulator has identified in the forensic science activity of estimating vehicle speed from video footage.
Standards and guidance for those forensic practitioners providing relationship testing services using autosomal DNA short tandem repeat profiling.
This document sets out the process for urgent legal classification of firearms.
Codes of conduct and practice for forensic science providers and practitioners in the criminal justice system.
Notification on the consultation to the proposed changes to the FSA-specific requirements for FSA DTN 102, analyses of blood samples for s5A drug driving.
Guidance on using legal limits in the prosecution of drug-driving offences.
Guidance for investigators and prosecutors on image analysis.
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