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Appendix to the codes of practice for forensic science providers covering digital forensic services.
Provides guidance and advice on validation stages and how the process can be applied within the digital forensic sciences.
Guidance for forensic service providers on using cell site data.
Sets out a standardised approach to formulating evaluative opinions used by forensic scientists in the criminal justice system.
Standards and guidance for those forensic practitioners providing relationship testing services using autosomal DNA short tandem repeat profiling.
Guidelines for proficiency tests used in the assessment of DNA mixture analysis and interpretation methods.
Guidance for the assessment, collection and recording of forensic science related evidence in sexual assault examinations.
Guidance on analysis and reporting in relation to offences under s5A Road Traffic Act 1988 (drug driving).
Protocol for forensic science providers and practitioners covers the management and use of staff elimination DNA databases.
This guidance sets out the approach for the interpretation of DNA mixture profiles.
Codes of conduct and practice for forensic science providers and practitioners in the criminal justice system.
Guidance on the content of non-expert technical statements within the Criminal Justice System in England and Wales.
FSA-BIO 100 covers the forensic medical examination of complainants. This FSA will be coming under the FSR Code of Practice in October 2025.
This guidance sets out the general approach for the validation of software with specific focus on the requirements for DNA mixture interpretation.
Provides further explanation of some of the requirements of the codes related to speech and audio analysis.
Appendix to the codes of practice for forensic science providers covering video analysis.
Guidance on using legal limits in the prosecution of drug-driving offences.
This document sets out the process for urgent legal classification of firearms.
Article 'Forensic science evidence in question' published in Sweet and Maxwell’s Criminal Law Review (Issue 5, 2011).
The Forensic Science Regulator publishes lessons that can be learnt from quality failings.
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