{"id":37668,"date":"2018-06-08T09:55:46","date_gmt":"2018-06-08T09:55:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/national-forensic-laboratory-launched\/"},"modified":"2018-06-10T11:56:23","modified_gmt":"2018-06-10T11:56:23","slug":"national-forensic-laboratory-launched","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/national-forensic-laboratory-launched\/","title":{"rendered":"National forensic laboratory launched"},"content":{"rendered":"

The laboratory that has been operating under Rwanda National Police (RNP) was operationalized Thursday and started to function as an independent institution.<\/p>\n

The Rwanda Forensic Laboratory was handed to its officials in a ceremony held at its headquarters in Kacyiru and presided over by the Minster of Justice, Johnston Busingye.<\/p>\n

The Director of the Laboratory, ACP Dr Fran\u00e7ois Sinayobye said that previously, they have been providing few services.<\/p>\n

He said that the laboratory has been upgraded and is able to conduct DNA tests which facilitate to establish the evidences with findings from the scene of crime. It is able to test family relationship among other services.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe aim is to support justice by providing scientific and reliable evidences. The laboratory has skilled employees and are ready to contribute to justice with reliable evidences, professionalism and impartiality,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n

The laboratory is capable to deal with physical evidence, biological evidence and chemical evidence, DNA samples, document examination and fingerprint analysis.<\/p>\n

The laboratory will offer among others toxicology and ballistics services. Toxicology is a test done on a person who, for instance, is poisoned while ballistics are tests that involve arms and explosives.<\/p>\n

The chemical evidence division will identify and analyze poisons or drugs and their effects on the body; chemicals on different crime scenes like fire accidents or arson. On such scenes, investigators seek to identify whether there is presence of fire accelerants, which help the investigator to conclude for a fire accident or arson.<\/p>\n

Police Inspector General, Emmanuel Gasana said that since RNP was formed in 2000, different changes have been conducted and led to the establishment of such laboratory.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are pleased with having this laboratory along the journey of constructing strong justice system,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n

Minister Busingye said that though the launched laboratory does not have all services, but those available are the first to be offered in Rwanda. <\/p>\n

\u201cEvidences like those for gender based violence cases, family relationship, poison among others are available like it is done in other countries,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cToday we celebrate this milestone. Foreign forensic laboratories were costing the country in terms of time and resources,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Prosecutor General, Jean Bosco Mutangana said that there have been facing challenges like forensic evidences which they used to conduct from German and were costly. He said that at least they need to conduct 800 forensic tests every year and needed to wait above two months to receive the results, things which used to delay justice.<\/p>\n

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Rwandans will no longer travel abroad for forensic laboratory services following the launch of Rwanda Forensic Laboratory that has the capacity to conduct scientific analysis and evidence for justice purposes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[72],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-37668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-featured-news-home","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37668\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37668"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=37668"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=37668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}