Zambia Police Service, is charged with the responsibility of maintaining peace, law and order in all our communities country-wide. In order to effectively and efficiently execute its mandate ....Read More
Questioned Document
This unit handles cases involving forgery of handwritings and signatures. Documents bearing disputed handwritings and signatures may include cheques, title deeds, certificates, contracts e.t.c.
By carrying out a side by side comparison of disputed items with control samples, authors of such crimes are identified.
Chemistry
Forensic Chemistry, or analytical chemistry, applied to crime scene analysis. This generally includes bomb fragment analysis and various other types of chemical residue analysis. This unit works in collaboration with the Food and Drug Section at the University Teaching Hospital.
Biology
Forensic Biology is the analysis of body fluids such as blood and saliva for a criminal investigation. A stain is first identified and further testing is often performed to determine the possible origin.
Genetic testing (DNA profiling) is the most prevalent type of analysis used to eliminate or include possible sources, most often the alleged crime victim, suspect or other involved party.
Computer Forensics
Computers have come to make our lives much easy and things get done on time with accuracy. Nevertheless, some individuals opt to use computers to commit crimes ranging from economic sabotage, cyber trespass, denial of service and many more. The gargets used range from mini-computers, laptops, ipads, cellular phones e.t.c. Computer forensics employ hi-tech methods and techniques to recreate deleted or erased data from computers.
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