DNA Testing Accountability Report, 2005

The system, encompassing eight operational laboratories and a Research and Development laboratory, processes cases in the following specialty areas: drug chemistry, trace chemistry, toxicology, microscopy, forensic biology/DNA, latent prints, firearms and tool marks, documents, and polygraph. Each operational laboratory has the responsibility of serving a particular geographical region of the state by providing forensic science analysis of evidence collected from crimes which occur within that area. Evidence pertaining to these crimes can be received by the operational laboratory from any criminal justice agency in that region. In Fiscal Year 2005, the ISP laboratory system received 123,109 cases and analyzed 116,882 cases.