BOARD APPROVES GRANTS FOR SHERIFF'S FORENSIC SCIENCES PROGRAM

 

 

 

PRESS RELEASE

Contact:  Tony Bell, Communications Deputy    Office:  (213) 974-5555   Cell: (213) 215-5176    E-mail:  tbell@bos.lacounty.gov

  

    October 7, 2008                                                                                             For Immediate Release

 

BOARD APPROVES GRANTS FOR

SHERIFF’S FORENSIC SCIENCES PROGRAM

 

 

LOS ANGELES COUNTY –  To enhance law enforcement’s ability to solve crimes, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors approved a $159,343 grant from the Governor’s Office of Emergency Services and a $1,057,121 grant from the United States Department of Justice, for the Sheriff Department’s forensic Sciences program, announced Supervisor Michael D. Antonovich.

 

The grant funding will be used by the Sheriff’s Department to secure continued education and training programs for the Department’s full-time forensic scientists.  It will also assist in the prevention and backlogging of forensic cases and improve the turn around time for case analysis, purchasing supplies, and outsourcing DNA cases for the Department’s Scientific Services Bureau’s Crime Lab.

 

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