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12-03-2018 | 15:09
During the last conference of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences (AAFS) – from February 19 to 24, 2018 in Seattle -...
29-01-2018 | 12:59
On Saturday 24 February a large-scale DNA investigation will be launched in an attempt to determine what happened to...
11-12-2017 | 08:57
On Saturday 9 December North Holland Police arrested a 47 year-old man from Zaandam in connection with the rape and violent...
06-07-2017 | 15:21
Peter van den Elzen (b. 1952) has taken up his duties as acting General Manager of the Netherlands Forensic Institute (NFI)....
08-05-2017 | 16:47
Together with European forensic institutes and universities, the Netherlands Forensic Institute (NFI) has developed software...
24-04-2017 | 10:29
For the third time in the more than 30 cases where the DNA database was searched using the familial searching technique, a...
23-03-2017 | 10:44
Reinout Woittiez has decided to step down as Chief Executive Officer of the Netherlands Forensic Institute (NFI).
28-02-2017 | 16:37
In the DNA database for criminal cases, the oldest DNA match ever was found at the end of 2016. It concerns a match between a...
27-02-2017 | 14:13
The Dutch police and the Netherlands Forensic Institute (NFI) are working together to make grab marks on clothes visible. The...
20-02-2017 | 13:04
The Netherlands Forensic Institute (NFI) has developed a method to determine whether the colour of fibres at a crime scene...
06-02-2017 | 16:22
Do bullets deviate if they are shot through a human body, but do not hit any bones? This is a question that may be essential to...
29-12-2016 | 13:22
Men and women who move a dead body generally do this in the same manner. The only difference is that – on average – women leave...
11-11-2016 | 12:55
A 68 year old Australian was found guilty today in a court in Adelaide (Australia) of the abduction and murder of the 10 year...
04-11-2016 | 10:10
The 10,000th international DNA match was reported this week to the Public Prosecution Service and the police. A trace in the...
27-10-2016 | 10:13
During the coming four years the Netherlands Forensic Institute (NFI) and the CTIT of the University of Twente (UT) are going...
24-10-2016 | 15:34
For the first time, a match has been found in the Interpol DNA databank with a DNA profile from the Netherlands. This made it...
12-10-2016 | 13:07
The aim is to make it possible for the police to carry out more and more measurements themselves in the future. They will still...
06-09-2016 | 15:21
How should one interpret evidence? Which value should be assigned to this evidence? These are challenging questions for both...
