Report Summary
This report provides members of the Forensic Services Committee with an overview of Forensic Services Director’s Report.
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Meeting
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Forensics Services Committee - 1 February 2023
Date : 01 February 2023
Location : online
Project Weaver
The transfer of Post Mortem Toxicology services to Forensic Services was delivered on 1 December 2022 with the staff transferring across to SPA Forensic Services from the University of Glasgow. Our new team have been busy setting up the laboratory to deliver this important service.
The success of this £6m project was helped by the flexible and pragmatic approach taken by all partners and stakeholders - including COPFS, University of Glasgow, Police Scotland, SPA Corporate, Scottish Government and trades unions – which also meant that the transfer has been achieved with no backlog of Post Mortem Toxicology cases.
We have held initial meetings to make sure we capture the lessons learnt from this project and these will continue. There will be a formal naming and opening of the new laboratory during the next few months – this is the fifth main Forensic Services laboratory and the latest since the opening of the Scottish Crime Campus nearly a decade ago.
