‘It's a new and safer beginning for the state,' Arkansas State Crime Lab groundbreaking brings hope to many
NORTH LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – The Arkansas State Crime Lab is cracking down on cases that have gone unsolved by introducing a new crime lab in North Little Rock during Friday's groundbreaking.
State law enforcement officials said this is all to delivering timely, accurate, and reliable work that'll impact dozens throughout the state.
The state's new crime lab will be a 190,000 square-foot facility equipped with the latest forensic technology and infrastructure and is a $200 million project.
They say the project is the start of something new and that every piece of evidence will be handled with integrity.
Arkansas purchases $4 million-plus 19-acre site in North Little Rock for new crime lab
This expansion is happening in three different parts of the state. Theodore Brown, the director and Chief Medical Examiner, says this is a part of their commitment to building a safer and stronger Arkansas.
'Everything that we are doing that we are putting into this new facility is centered solely on best serving Arkansans,' Brown said. 'How can we best provide timely accurate and reliable forensic sciences throughout our state when our families, our patients need us most?'
The services at the crime lab include forensic pathology, toxicology, drug analysis, DNA analysis, ballistics, digital evidence processing, and latent fingerprint identification.
The project is expected to reach completion in 2027.
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