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                            Funding & Awards
 NIJ FY2015 Forensic DNA Backlog Reduction Program - Westchester County - Division of Forensic Sciences
Award Information
Awardee
              County of Westchester
Award #
              2015-DN-BX-0013
Funding Category
              Formula
Location
                    White Plains, NY
Awardee County
              Westchester
Congressional District
              17
Status
              Closed
Funding First Awarded
              2015
Total funding (to date)
              $280,430
Original Solicitation
              NIJ FY 15 DNA Capacity Enhancement and Backlog Reduction Program
Description of original award (Fiscal Year 2015, $280,430)
Funding from this grant will go toward satisfying two ends:  increasing the capacity to perform DNA analysis, and reducing the backlog created by uncompleted cases in the Forensic Science Laboratory of the Westchester County New York Division of Forensic Sciences.  The accomplishment of these goals is in line with our pledge to furnish preliminary DNA results to investigating agencies in a timely manner.
Our laboratory has been on-line with STR DNA typing since 1999.  In sixteen years the demands on, and expectations of, all forensic case-working laboratories has intensified such that analytical turn-around time must be greatly reduced and the typing techniques employed must be increasingly more sophisticated.  Currently our laboratory employs nuclear STR typing and Y-STR typing techniques.  In addition, the FBI Quality Assurance Standards, which took effect in July 2009, and the SWGDAM (Scientific Working Group on DNA Analysis Methods) Guidelines, which took effect in January 2010, have imposed additional requirements for casework analysis and mixture interpretation.
To maintain pace with evolving trends and national accreditation requirements for DNA analysis and to reduce our current backlog of cases to be analyzed for DNA, our laboratory will require new laboratory supplies and equipment,  access to training opportunities and travel monies, have a QAS audit and the capability to hire temporary laboratory technician support staff.  This augmented capacity will enable us to process, record, screen, and analyze forensic DNA samples in order to further reduce the amount of time required to complete casework.  We anticipate the momentum created by this optimized work flow will preemptively reduce future bottlenecks at the examination, analytical, and review stages of casework by substantially minimizing our current backlog.
In this grant we are requesting funding that would allow us to: continue the trend of providing the most probative case results to the requesting agency in a timely manner, increase our capacity to complete ancillary casework procedures, and reduce our backlog of UCR Part 1 Violent Crimes forensic casework including property crimes.
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Date Created: September 20, 2015
    
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