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NFI co-creates international digital forensics knowledge base
The Netherlands Forensic Institute (NFI), in partnership with the University of Oxford and the University of Lausanne, has ...
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New milestone for comparisons with DNA database: “This is going to lead to breakthroughs”
The Netherlands Forensic Institute (NFI) is able to do more and more with minimal and complex trace evidence, and the ...
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Harm van Beek appointed Endowed Professor of Digital Forensics
The Executive Board of the Open Universiteit has appointed Harm van Beek as Professor of Digital Forensics in the Faculty of ...
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NFI annual report: opportunities for digital transformation but also challenges in finances, personnel and accessibility of forensic data
As a national knowledge institute with an executive role, the Netherlands Forensic Institute (NFI) contributes to a safe and just ...
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AI model trained to recognise fireworks more quickly after explosion
Incidents involving heavy-duty fireworks occur daily. The fireworks are used in attacks on homes, out of a desire for destruction ...
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NFI and NRGD combine exams
In order to be admitted as forensic experts, specialists in the field of DNA and Forensic Pathology now only have to sit one ...
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New discipline can reveal the identity of writers in the texts they write
A victim found with a noose around his neck: he appears to have hanged himself. He was an accountant and had just transferred ...
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Visitors to Rijksmuseum Boerhaave solve murder case with the help of NFI experts
A knife, a victim’s body and a lot of bloodstains. What happened in the conference hall at Rijksmuseum Boerhaave in Leiden? In ...
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Digital forensic platform Hansken wins European Public Sector Award
A milestone for Hansken in Maastricht today: the digital forensic platform won first prize in the ‘Digital Transformation’ ...
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NFI anniversary year
The Netherlands Forensic Institute (NFI) is celebrating its 25th anniversary. In 1999, the Forensic Laboratory and the Laboratory ...
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Worldwide standard for forensic analysis laboratories
The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) is issuing an international standard for forensic science. The fifteen ...
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Trend survey of confiscated drugs reveals little change in drug quality
What are the trends and developments in the drugs most commonly confiscated by the police? What is the quality of the drugs? And ...
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Police and NFI investigate proceeds from crystal meth
The court has sentenced a Mexican crystal meth producer, dubbed by the media ‘Pablo Icecobar’, to 15 years in jail. He was ...
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NFI and WODC build infrastructure for data analysis in the justice and security domain
What is the link between the dumping of drugs waste, the discovery of a batch of XTC pills and raw materials intercepted in a ...
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NFI nomenclature for forensic DNA becomes worldwide standard
The international forensic community has decided that the software developed by the NFI to name forensic DNA fragments is to ...
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CLHC and NFI present first Dutch Forensic Research Agenda
The Co van Ledden Hulsebosch Center for forensic science and medicine (CLHC) and the Netherlands Forensic Institute (NFI) are ...
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NFI staff member writes international handbook on the application of artificial intelligence in forensic analysis
US police recently arrested a woman who was eight months pregnant on suspicion of carjacking as her two children looked on. Her ...
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Which knife is the murder weapon? NFI provides decisive evidence in Swedish case
A dead woman lies in a pool of blood in the stairwell of a Swedish apartment block. She has five knife wounds in her chest, back ...
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