Future forensic labs

• engender change

  • improving/addressing gender and diversity isssues
  • focus on equality and equity
  • taken 6-10 yrs
• list the goals for engender change

  1. aim to transform diversty and inclusion cluster through leadership
  2. focus on everyday actions and Langauge used to contribute to gender issues
  3. signing up to the initiative of personal and volunteer
• what is everyone’s role

  1. Encourage
  2. educate
  3. enable
• background of inquiry

  • failure to generate DNA profiles from a proportion of crime scene samples highlighted by the media
  • 6 jun 2022 and 12 dec 2022 <— 123+3 recommendations
• what were the cases of the inquiry

  1. lack of fundings
  2. quick turnaround times
  3. desire to turn lab into pathology screening
• what did the inquiry want to do

  1. ensure transparency
  2. ID opportunities for improvements
  3. ensure public condifence in DNA collection and testing
• what were the 3 recommendations based on

  • threshold which are Managment opinions
• list the issues found in the inquiry

  1. goverance and operation structure
  2. Stakeholder enagement
  3. SA kits
  4. case revise
  5. validations
  6. producer focus
  7. quality focus
  8. workflow changes
  9. case management approach
• how as FSQ created

  • 2023 under QLD health
  • now under departement of justice and att-general
• old workflow

  • sample based <- ananlysed indep and reported sep
  • leads to interpretation inconsistencies
  • no case context
  • focus on quick results with even no results (4 weeks)
• achievement to date

  1. developing leadership: forming managements,
  2. goverance
  3. people and cult: improving training and social club
  4. process foundations: new guidelines and contracts
  5. infastructure: new DNA robots and equipment
• strategic framewrok for QFS

  1. people and cut: Collab, motivate and empower
  2. infrastuct
  3. science innovation
  4. process foundation: deliver valid, reliable and high quality
• requirements for a good quality empirical study

  1. claim
  2. vara
  3. test mat
  4. sample size
  5. controls
  6. bindings prat
  7. white vs black box
  8. results
  9. limitations
  10. conclusions and implications
• white vs black box

  white: investigates the process within a system results

  black: human performance, test the systems as a whole
• types of results 


  type 1: false +be and reject null

  type 2: false -ve, and accepts null
• 7 principles of sydney declaration

  1. act and presence = traces that are fund vectors of info
  2. since invest is a science and diagnostics endeavour requires science expert
  3. FS is case based and reliant of sci background
  4. fs is an assesment of findings due to time asymmetry
  5. FSS deals with continuum of uncertainties
  6. FSS has multi-dimensional purpose and contributors
  7. FSS findings acquire meaning in context