Crime Lab
The main Massachusetts State Police Crime Lab is located in Sudbury. There are several laboratory substations spread throughout the Commonwealth The lab serves law enforcement agencies and District Attorneys throughout the Commonwealth, providing a wide array of support to facilitate effective investigations and criminal prosecutions. The Crime Lab examines evidence that can be used to help tie criminals to their crimes, victims to their assailants and exonerate innocent suspects. The Ballistics Section and Crime Scene Services Section are served by sworn personnel.
The Lab is broken up into sections and units:
- Arson & Explosives Unit
- Ballistics Section
- CODIS Unit
- Criminalistics Section
- Crime Scene Services Section
- Digital Evidence & Multimedia Section (DEMS)
- DNA Unit
- Drug Unit
- Evidence Control Unit
- Identification Section
- Office of Alcohol Testing
- Toxicology Unit
- Trace Analysis Unit
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