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The NFI provides crucial DNA evidence in solving an Australian cold case
A 68 year old Australian was found guilty today in a court in Adelaide (Australia) of the abduction and murder of the 10 year old ...
10,000th international DNA match reported
The 10,000th international DNA match was reported this week to the Public Prosecution Service and the police. A trace in the ...
Worldwide standard for determining evidentiary value
During the coming four years the Netherlands Forensic Institute (NFI) and the CTIT of the University of Twente (UT) are going to ...
First identification through Interpol DNA databank
For the first time, a match has been found in the Interpol DNA databank with a DNA profile from the Netherlands. This made it ...
NFI, police and PPS explore possibilities of mobile analysis equipment
The aim is to make it possible for the police to carry out more and more measurements themselves in the future. They will still ...
NFI-scientist writes accessible book on evidence interpretation
How should one interpret evidence? Which value should be assigned to this evidence? These are challenging questions for both ...
Festival visitors provide data to NFI
Festival visitors provided forensic data to forensic researchers of the Netherlands Forensic Institute (NFI) during Lowlands ...
NFI CEO Reinout Woittiez joins advisory council of American academic forensic consortium
The Chief Executive Officer of the Netherlands Forensic Institute (NFI), Reinout Woittiez, has joined the advisory council of ...
European Consortium working on search tools for analysing big data
Over the next four years, a European Consortium of more than thirty European parties will be working on the development of ...
Glass database links splinters to suspects and crimes
The Netherlands Forensic Institute (NFI) has developed a database, together with the police, for splinters of glass. These ...