A New Information Management System for NFSS

To improve the delivery of forensic science and legal medicine services to the criminal justice system, the National Forensic Science Service is introducing a new approach that will do away with paper-based methods of capturing and accurately tracking case file data.  It’s called the Laboratory Information Management System and it supports the digital transformation of case file information among the Scenes of Crime, Medical Examiner’s Office and the Forensic Laboratory units.

Ian King

Ian King, Deputy Resident Representative, U.N.D.P.

“The LIMS will enable the National Forensics Science Service, and I am sure we’ll hear more from Mr. Cho, to efficiently manage evidence and resources and can be scaled to meet the demands of various stakeholders along the continuum of justice, such as the police department, the Director of Public Prosecutions, and the judiciary.  The LIMS will facilitate systems-based communications to track the status of criminal cases and associated lab work in real time.”

Gian Cho

Gian Cho, Executive Director, NFSS

“There is always need to share data, not only with the police but with the judiciary and with prisons, in terms of turnaround times, in terms of case status, in terms of backlog reduction and backlog mitigation.  So having a modern laboratory information management system will help to share that data and for simplicity sake, I summarized it into four areas where data integration and data analysis are crucial which is in the middle, evidence-based decision making, one of the tenets of Infosegura.”

Kareem Musa

Kareem Musa, Minister of Home Affairs

“This initiative, supported by the United States Agency for International Development is implemented through the United Nations Development Programme in Belize, in partnership with our ministry, the Ministry of Home Affairs and New Growth Industries, through the Belize Crime Observatory and the National Forensics Science Service which in this case is the beneficiary department.”