2023-08-26 07:28:20
The initiative contemplates people deprived of their liberty in prisons “at the national level”. Image: Getty Images/AFP/M. Medina
The Government said that they will have scientific elements to resolve cases and for identification for humanitarian purposes.
The Institute of Legal Medicine and Forensic Sciences (IMELCF) of Panama launched this Friday (08.25.2023) the project of Collection of Biological DNA Samples to the prison population“the first in Central America that includes those deprived of liberty,” the Government reported.
This initiative, funded by a grant from the US Department of State’s Office of Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (INL), also places Panama among the “more than 50 countries in the world in having a DNA Database and Database,” said a statement from the IMELCF.
The fundamental objective of the project, which includes people deprived of their liberty in prisons “at the national level”, is to “provide elements for the solution of criminal and identification cases” for humanitarian purposes.
The taking of “non-invasive” biological samples gives continuity to the project of the DNA Database and Database that it advances together with the Center for Human Identification, of the Center for Health Sciences of the University of North Texas (UNTCHI, for its acronym in English), indicated the official information.
Among the functions of the IMELCF, attached to the Public Ministry, is to provide Criminalistics services, analytical identification and scientific and medico-legal investigation.
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