Four-year SAPS forensic evidence backlog on the brink of being resolved | Citypress

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Chairperson of the portfolio committee on police Tina Joemat-Pettersson is confident that “the longstanding DNA case exhibit backlog and the dysfunction at the national Forensic Science Laboratory will soon be resolved”.

The backlog spans a period of almost four years, but Joemat-Pettersson said engagements between her committee, the management of the SA Police Service and the State Information Technology Agency as well as National Treasury have yielded some “light at the end of the tunnel with respect to the processing of DNA samples” that had been collecting dust, and the Property Control and Exhibit Management information technology infrastructure used to store forensic data.

The criminal justice system will be better served by the Forensic Science Laboratory functioning optimally to ensure that prosecutions are scientific, evidence-based and timely.At the end of December, the backlog had quickly grown to 142 504 cases, the portfolio committee was informed, and at the beginning of March this year, it stood at 172 787 cases, said Major General Edward Ngokha, head of the Forensic Science Laboratory.

Joemat-Pettersson urged all stakeholders to work collaboratively and share technical skills if the SAPS is to be successfully weaned from external service providers, especially in critical areas of work.She revealed that the new internal system developed by Sita would be coming on line on April 6 2021.

 

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SAHRCommission I'm yet to hear you pronounce yourself on this critical issue of Forensic evidence backlog. Serious crimes are falling through the cracks. What are you doing to hold the failing ANC government accountable on this?

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Police cannot be able to solve the cases speedily because of the outstanding reports from forensic science laboratory and cases are postpone at court

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