Why don’t you just add personnel to the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department forensic lab and use their services?
This is an inefficient, ineffective, and incorrect procedure to follow. Many “small” departments follow that procedure due to staffing and financial reasons. However, depending on the location of public agency customers, court facilities, etc., this is not always a reasonable option. “Centralization” with a single laboratory in such a largely populated area as the Las Vegas Valley and southern Nevada is not a reasonable option for the long term. There is a limit to what functions can and should be centralized under one roof. Forensic evidence processing and analysis has proven to be a poor candidate in the Las Vegas valley. The correct methods for processing evidence requires following specific steps in sequence. These sequences include various stages of sampling and processing in one or more of the following areas: evidence screening, fingerprints, DNA, serology, toxicology, drug/narcotics identification, trace evidence, microscopy, firearms, and tool marks. Failure to follow the corr
