Geneticists-criminologists

Three DNA laboratories will appear at the Russian criminologists in 2013

RIA NewsThree additional DNA laboratories that will help investigators solve crimes, including those of previous years, will be operational by the end of the year in the largest cities of Russia.

Already today, thanks to technological innovations, criminologists of the Investigative Committee of Russia can determine the genotype of the alleged criminal, Alexander Ivanov, head of the Main Department of Criminalistics of the IC of the Russian Federation, told RIA Novosti.

Genotype by analysisAccording to Ivanov, today the technologies of exposing criminals have advanced and sometimes they are simply unique.

Now the criminologists of the department have the opportunity to use the most modern achievements in the field of information technology and molecular genetics in the investigation process.

"Take at least a series of violent sexual acts against children in Novosibirsk from 2004 to 2012. A tremendous amount of work has been done. According to the traces of biological origin left by the criminal, his ethnogeographic characteristics were established," the head of the department said.

Ivanov explained that billing information was analyzed with the help of the I-2 software and analytical complex introduced into the work of investigative bodies by the Main Department of Criminalistics. All this has narrowed the circle of suspects as much as possible.

New laboratoriesAccording to Ivanov, three additional DNA laboratories will be opened by the end of 2013.

They will work in Kazan, Yekaterinburg and Novosibirsk.

"We all need to get used to such a new phrase as "information traces". They are the future. The introduction of analytical investigation technologies into the work, including on crimes of the past years, is one of the ways to increase efficiency," the agency interlocutor said.

He believes that it is impossible to discount the fact that the mechanism of crime detection is gradually changing. Today there is a tendency to increase the detection of crimes by investigative means.

"Only three DNA laboratories of the Investigative Committee in 2013 established the expert involvement of 626 persons in crimes, and also identified the identity of 257 unidentified corpses," he added.

Ivanov noted that the UK criminologists are armed with the latest technical complexes for analyzing information, the most modern search devices and technical means for detecting, fixing and removing various traces of a crime.

Disclosure of "hangers"Speaking about the number of unsolved murders of previous years, Ivanov said that, according to the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, at the beginning of July this year, the remainder of unsolved murders committed in previous years amounted to over 90 thousand, and rapes – over 20 thousand.

"Only in Moscow and the Moscow region there are about 18 thousand, and in the Urals – about six thousand unsolved murders," said the head of the department.

According to him, investigators, criminologists of the department in close cooperation with operational units, primarily the bodies of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, make significant efforts to solve such crimes.

"Every year we solve more than 700 murders of the past years. For example, in 2013, all the murders that caused increased public interest were solved," Ivanov said.

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