By Marcus Moloko
Minister of Public Works and Infrastructure Dean Macpherson on Friday handed over the new KwaZulu-Natal SAPS Forensic Science Laboratory in Mayville, Durban, to Police Minister Firoz Cachalia.
The laboratory is part of efforts to improve forensic capacity and ease long-running delays in criminal investigations in the province.
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The facility, at 95 King Cetshwayo Highway, brings together forensic functions that had previously operated from fragmented and unsuitable premises, and is intended to strengthen service delivery in a province where flooding and infrastructure problems have repeatedly disrupted forensic work.
The handover ceremony was attended by Premier Thamsanqa Ntuli, Deputy Police Minister Cassel Mathale, eThekwini mayor Cyril Xaba and provincial commissioner Lieutenant General Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi.
Parliament’s police committee has previously warned that the province’s forensic operations were being hampered by leased buildings in Amanzimtoti, including some on a flood
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