ROCIC and DNA:SI Training Partnership Continues

The Houston County Texas Sheriff’s Office will host DNA Collection and Local DNA Index Training in Crocket, TX on February 24, 2010 to continue the ROCIC–DNA:SI training collaboration.
On January 27, 2010, DNA:SI provided a similar training session for law enforcement investigators at ROCIC headquarters in Nashville, TN.
DNA:SI Labs first presented touch/contact DNA collection methods and Local DNA Index Systems at the Regional Organized Crime Information Center Homicide Investigator Training Seminar in Charleston, WV in October 2009. ROCIC is one of six NIJ funded RISS - Regional Information Sharing Systems programs in the United States.
DNA:SI and ROCIC look forward to an ongoing partnership bringing advanced technology to law enforcement for purposes of criminal investigations. Additional training sessions are being schedule throughout the Southeast Region on a mnthly basis.

Lafayette Parish Sherriff Nuestrom committed to fighting crime with advanced technology

LAFAYETTE, La. (AP) -- The Lafayette Parish Sheriff's Office can now get quick tests on DNA samples to be used as evidence for petty crimes rather than only for major crimes.
It has signed on with a private company in Burlington, N.C., for a system called LODIS, or Local DNA Index system.
Each patrol officer is trained to identify and collect samples, and DNA:SI Labs will create an online database for the Lafayette Parish Sheriff's Office.
Lt. Allen Venable, with Metro Forensics for the city and parish, says the idea is to catch and identify petty offenders before they evolve into serious criminals.
DNA:SI Labs developed the program with the Palm Bay Police Department in Florida.
Palm Bay police Maj. John Blackledge says it's done more than expected.