Ljubljana, 25 April 2025 – The Ministry of the Interior, the managing authority for EU home affairs funds, has approved the project Criminalistic techniques for fighting crime.
Forensic investigations and criminalistic techniques have been applied for over 150 years in crime investigations by the police. The first known crime lab to use forensic techniques to identify perpetrators was established as far back as the 1880s in Paris, while Slovenia saw its first forensic lab set up in 1950. Effective fight against crime is one of the goals of the European Union’s Internal Security Fund. The National Forensic Laboratory, an independent organisational unit of the General Police Directorate, pursues the same goal with the project Criminalistic techniques for fighting crime.
Crime scene investigation is a vital process in criminal investigations. It is becoming increasingly integrated in the international exchange of forensic information and other forensic evidence that is used to detect and investigate cross-border crimes. Consequently, there is a growing need for specific state-of-the-art field and lab equipment in the criminalistic technique departments as well as for specific investigative knowhow and skills that should be accredited in the future. This will pave the way for integrating forensic evidence resulting from investigations into so-called single European forensic area fostering cooperation between police and judicial authorities across the European Union, which aligns with one of the goals of the European forensic science.
The project will help the National Forensic Laboratory upgrade the equipment used in forensic labs. This will allow the investigators to professionally handle and analyse secured trace evidence and ensure admissibility and evidentiary value of forensic evidence. As part of the project, a series of training sessions in the areas with knowledge gaps will be carried out.
The €620,000 project will receive €465,000 from the Internal Security Fund.
Photo: Police – National Forensic Laboratory
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