District Forensic Science Lab inaugurated in Gurugram

With an aim to expedite the investigation of criminal cases, the Gurugram police have set up a District Forensic Science Lab (DFSL) at Gurugram Police Lines. The lab was inaugurated by Commissioner of Police Vikas Kumar Arora on Wednesday.

According to the police, the main objective of setting up the DFSL is to expedite various prosecutions and to provide forensic results at the earliest.

A physics division for examining recordings related to crimes, a division for anti-corruption investigation, and a cyber-forensic extraction lab will be established at the facility.

Apart from this, blood detection kits and narcotics detection kits will be made available here for research.

Police employees will also be given training at the lab to upload videos/photos of the incident spot and other evidence on the e-evidence portal of the department. Through the lab, forensic investigation in various cases can be made efficient and effective.

“All investigating officers will be called from time to time to make the investigation more effective, and will be trained on forensics,” said CP Vikas Kumar Arora.

Arpit Jain, DCP (Headquarters); Rajesh Kumar, DCP (Crime); several ACPs and SHOs; Dr Deepak Sharma, Senior Scientific Assistant; and other investigation officers of the Gurugram police were present at the event.