CSI Winston-Salem? While there's no television series in the offing, the city's police department is looking at adding a forensics lab. Winston-Salem police have proposed getting a forensics lab at the Winston-Salem Police Department to analyze evidence related to their cases.
According to Fox 8 News, this comes while 400 cases are backlogged, pending analysis by the state crime lab in Raleigh. According to Karen Watson, supervisor of the Winston-Salem Police Forensic Services Division, some of those cases go back to 2010.
Watson says the department proposed the lab to city leaders on Monday. They looked at a number of approaches, but their preferred option is to pay a private company to set up a crime lab inside the Winston-Salem Police Department.
Watson says if the department was to get a private lab on-site, their backlog would almost immediately be eliminated. She added that other agencies would be interested in using the lab, as well, which would offset much of the cost to the Winston-Salem Police Department.
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