“It will help ensure that forensic science is supported by the strongest possible science-based evidence gathering, analysis, and measurement.” The commissioners were chosen from 300 candidates and ...

The Forensic Science Service, a government-owned company which is the largest provider of forensic services for police and governments in England and Wales, is due to be closed in March after ...

A national forensic science service will have to be "reinvented" due to the likelihood of failed prosecutions when the current system closes in March, it has been claimed. The Forensic Science ...

The hugely loss-making Forensic Science Service (FSS) is to be wound up, the Government has announced. The company has helped solve crimes such as the Suffolk prostitute murders and more recently ...

The profit motive may deliver better service in some sectors, and may indeed have a place in some areas of forensic science. But a purely competition-driven system, in which private labs must win ...

The Forensic Science Service, a government-owned company, was shut down in 2012, after the government said it lost £2m each month. But in 2015, the National Audit Office warned standards were ...

The cost of closing down the Forensic Science Service (FSS) could be more than three times the UK government's estimate, says a leading researcher. The Home Office quotes a figure of £95m for ...