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Title: Forensic Lab Director


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Forensic Lab Director
  • By Caitlin Kotze

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Qualifications
  • Education
  • Minimum of a Bachelors degree in a natural
    science or a Criminalistics program
  • Experience
  • Minimum of 5 yrs. experience in a Forensic Lab
    doing actual casework
  • Court testimony experience as an expert witness
    in each area of expertise

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Qualifications Contd
  • Knowledge
  • Must have a working knowledge of ASCLD-LAB Lab
    operational requirements essential to maintaining
    the labs quality system and maintaining lab
    accreditation
  • Must have the ability to operate and perform
    basic maintenance of analytical instrumentation
    necessary to perform analyses in the appropriate
    areas of expertise required
  • Must use generally accepted analytical procedures
    in the routine analysis of evidence
  • Must be capable of validating new procedures
    before using the procedures to analyze casework

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Duties
  • Analyze evidence
  • Testify in court as an expert witness
  • Prepare the annual lab budget request
  • Monitor lab expenditures
  • Maintain accreditation by the American Society of
    Crime Lab Directors-Lab Accreditation Board
    (ASCLD-LAB)
  • Oversee the daily operation of all lab activities
  • Produce accurate written reports for the
    submitting agencies
  • Do work required as Quality Manager and Safety
    Manager
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