NCJ Number
211866
Journal
Evidence Technology Magazine Volume: 3 Issue: 5 Dated: September-October 2005 Pages: 30-32
Editor(s)
Kristi Mayo
Date Published
September 2005
Length
3 pages
Annotation
This article briefly discusses the implementation of the laboratory information-management system (LIMS)-plus software application within the Royal Canadian Mounted Police to upgrade and integrate six forensic-laboratory facilities using barcode printing and scanning.
Abstract
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) provides services to Federal, provincial, and municipal levels of government and operates a massive and complicated information-system infrastructure. The RCMP wanted to establish the same information-management system at all six sites of its Forensic Laboratory Services to acquire greater efficiency. The intent is to tie together the different sites and link them together. This article discusses the RCMP’s decision to use the laboratory information-management system (LIMS)-plus software application which utilizes barcodes to easily record and track physical evidence as it moves through a forensic lab and from one lab to another. The forensic-laboratory information-management systems offer new technology that allows real-time interfacing between departments in different locations miles apart. With the new information-management system, the Forensic Laboratory Services is streamlined, easily accessible allowing for each of its six sites to collaborate and cooperate as a single unit.