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About 25,000 leads per year that are sent to the National Forensic Center, NFC, are not fully analyzed, SVT reports.
All traces ended up below the NFC cutoff value for DNA analysis and instead of being analyzed, ended up in one of several freezers in a basement at NFC.
This despite the fact that German researchers have found that it is entirely possible to obtain a DNA profile in every third case, a TSV refers to a German study
– It gives me the creeps when I think about it, forensic scientist Björn Thurfors, who investigated how NFC handles DNA traces, tells SVT.
NFC: not everything can be analyzed
The NFC claims that it cannot analyze all the evidence that the police sent them.
– We receive 100,000 cases per year in different categories of crimes of different nature with very different complexity, says Helena Trolläng, director of NFC, to SVT and continues:
– If we want to have any opportunity to really answer something that is useful, we must make a selection together with the research activities.
Björn Thurfors criticizes Helena Trolläng’s defense:
– It cannot be that they do so, it has enormous consequences for the Judiciary. How many DNA extracts are there in your freezers that you can use? Because NFC doesn’t want to analyze, he says.
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