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Responsibilities
The Forensic Science Division provides a comprehensive
forensic scientific service to the Criminal Justice System in Hong
Kong. In meeting that commitment the service seeks to be impartial,
accurate and efficient, complementing a wide range of specialist
analytical tasks with informed scientific opinion on the significance
of the results obtained.
It is the primary obligation of the Division to
provide services to Government Departments concerned with law and
order without fiscal restraint at individual case level but subvented
organisations, such as the Hospital Authority, provide an overall annual
payment which accrues to General Treasury revenue, to cover use
of the Division's analytical services.
Besides performing laboratory analyses on articles submitted for examination by these departments, the Division also provides a round-the-clock crime scene examination service, which aims to lend expert assistance to the identification and retrieval of relevant scientific evidence materials for examination. The myriad of scenes requiring attendance range from the relatively simple burglaries, to serious ones in homicides, rapes, etc. There are also officers specially trained for more specialised investigations, such as the causes of fires, re-constructing traffic accidents, and interpreting bloodstain patterns where blood is shed.
Organization The Division comprises two Groups of sections viz.
the Criminalistics and Quality Management Group
(seven sections) and the Drugs, Toxicology and Documents
Group (five sections).
Criminalistics
and Quality Management Group
The Criminalistics and Quality Management Group
comprises seven operational sections as follows:
Key Personnel
The Group is headed by a Chief Chemist.
Chief Chemist: Dr. K Y To (Doubling)
(Tel.
No. 2762-3794 E-mail: kyto@govtlab.gov.hk)
Drugs, Toxicology
and Documents Group
The Drugs, Toxicology and Documents Group comprises
five sections:
Key Personnel
The Group is headed by a Chief Chemist.
Chief Chemist: Mr. P Tsui
(Tel.
No. 2762-3809 E-mail: ptsui@govtlab.gov.hk)
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