Forensic Science in Irish Policing - From Fingerprints to DNA | Sean Daly Garda

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For most people, “forensics” in policing arrives already fully formed: a swab, a lab, a match, a courtroom moment. In Irish policing, as in policing everywhere, it has been a slower story. It is a story of ink-stained fingers and patient record-keeping, of microscopes and careful measurement, of the human need to make sense of traces left behind. And, in recent decades, it has become a story of DNA.