The advance of new technology and the refinement of existing techniques have become essential tools for solving all types of crime this year, from criminal damage to murder.
We have detected more crime this year through fingerprints and DNA than ever before.
In the use of scientific techniques we are on of the most effective forces in England and Wales producing the second largest number of detections from forensic work.
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