Tailored consulting for your forensic laboratory. Contact us to scope your specific project needs, workflow design, and expert case reviews.
Four service lines, one forensic standard
Forensic DNA consulting and training — consulting engagements, ISO 17025 courses, the Forensic Science Academy, and Law Enforcement Training.
Gap analysis and on-site audit of your current QMS against ISO 17025 requirements. On-site visit strongly recommended. Delivers a full findings and recommendations report.
Complete QMS documentation package from gap findings or your own requirements list. Includes quality manual, SOPs, forms, and templates. Standalone or bundled with assessment.
End-to-end validation planning, on-site execution, and reporting for STR, extraction, and quantification kits. Covers Thermo Fisher, Promega, QIAGEN and others. Remote or on-site.
Training course covering QMS structure, validation requirements, competency management, internal audits, and full assessment preparation. Also available as Academy Tier 4.
Bespoke ISO 17025 training built around your organisation's specific documentation needs, audit timeline, and team competency gaps.
Sample collection, presumptive testing, DNA fundamentals, STR typing, extraction, quantification, lab standardisation, and intro to validation.
SWGDAM / ENFSI guidelines, experimental design, acceptance criteria, statistical analysis, sensitivity testing, QA, and validation planning.
Mixture interpretation, probabilistic genotyping, kinship analysis (Y/X-STR), mitochondrial DNA, workflow optimisation, and expert testimony.
Full accreditation walkthrough — QMS structure, validation requirements, competency management, internal audits, and assessment preparation.
End-to-end validation training — frameworks, planning, performance characteristics, kit-specific validation, statistics, and report writing.
Bespoke training programmes built around your organisation's specific workflows, knowledge gaps, and learning objectives.
For judges, attorneys, and investigators. Report structure, key terminology, statistics, likelihood ratios, mixture profiles, secondary DNA transfer, and questioning experts in court.
For defence counsel. Challenging chain of custody, laboratory procedures, statistical interpretation, mixture results, probabilistic genotyping, and building alternative narratives.
Bespoke law enforcement training tailored to your organisation's specific needs, case types, and jurisdictional context.