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HPD Crime Lab Soon to Resume DNA Testing

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That's the title of Roma Khanna's report in today's Houston Chronicle.  LINKThe Houston Police Department crime lab is close to resuming DNA testing, officials told a City Council committee Monday, six months after the lab was forced to suspend such analyses for the second time in recent years. Crime lab director Irma Rios introduced new DNA section leader Laura Gahn, whose hiring brings HPD in compliance with a state law requiring crime labs to have a supervisor oversee DNA testing. Gahn, who has more than a decade of leadership experience in private DNA labs, joined HPD earlier this month. After she recertifies analysts and equipment, DNA testing can begin, Rios said. "Our number one goal is to get the DNA division back up and running as soon as possible," Rios told the council's Public Safety and Homeland Security Committee...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on June 24, 2008 (boomark / email).