Meanwhile, over in the UK …

✍ Scribed by R.J. Davis

• Book ID: 104119628
• Publisher: Elsevier
• Year: 1988
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 186 KB
• Volume: 28
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0015-7368
• DOI: 10.1016/s0015-7368(88)72798-x

✦ Synopsis

Forensic science has been in the news again. Excitement about DNA profiling grows, but uncertainty about the future continues to dog those in government service. The Metropolitan Police Laboratory already has a new Director but another ex-Met scientist, Margaret Pereira, is about to retire. Her successor, the Director-General of the Home Office Forensic Science Service, will be on a short-term contract and charged with implementing changes in the organisation and management of the Service. In this time of change, where does the Forensic Science Society stand? Can economy and the efficient use of limited resources be reconciled with the standard and extent of service that so many wish to give, be they pathologists or policemen, scenes of crime officers or forensic scientists? Some of the answers lie, perhaps, in the bold pronouncements of the Society's last President and the thought-provoking editorials published in the pages of this journal during the last year or so.