20 Sep 2025
From uncovering the truth to exonerating the innocent, forensic professionals are the voice of evidence.
👏 Join us in thanking the nearly 90 dedicated staff at the San Diego County Sheriff's Office Regional Crime Laboratory. Their expertise spans 9 forensic disciplines and supports over 30 law enforcement agencies across the region. In the past year alone, they’ve fulfilled more than 12,000 forensic service requests. We recognize and honor the vital role forensic science plays in the criminal justice system.
Behind every case, there's science. Behind the science, there’s a team we’re proud to celebrate. #ForensicScienceWeek
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19 Sep 2025
We’re wrapping up National #ForensicScienceWeek! Our Crime Scene Investigators don’t train once and they are done. Our team regularly attends advanced training courses to stay up to date on evolving techniques from digital forensics to emerging trace evidence methods. #Sarasota
ALT Smiling woman sits at a desk with dual computer monitors, working on fingerprint analysis using specialized forensic software and equipment.
ALT Close-up of a yellow plastic evidence marker labeled with the number 9 in bold black print, sitting on a metal shelf.
ALT Person wearing blue gloves uses a brush to apply liquid onto a sheet of white paper on a work surface, with laboratory bottles and tools in the background.
ALT A light shining on a piece of white paper with faint fingerprints on them.
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If you're in the DMV stop by the #DEAForensic Festival. Meet the real crime lab scientists & experts in chemistry, fingerprint, digital examination, & Illicit Hazardous Environments (IHE) that support DEA’s mission & ensure the health & safety of the public. #ForensicScienceWeek
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19 Sep 2025
🔬 This #ForensicScienceWeek, we’re celebrating ALEA’s Latent Print Unit!
👣 Approximately 935 certified latent print examiners in the world—5 are at ALEA (plus 2 trainees).
Their expertise helps ID suspects & deliver justice across Alabama. 💙 #ALEA
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It's National Forensic Science Week, and ATF offers various career opportunities and internships in forensic science, technology, engineering and mathematics. Learn more at about STEM careers at ATF at atf.gov/careers/careers-fore…. #STEM #ForensicScienceWeek #ATFJobs
ALT Image of an ATF forensic scientist with shell casings. Text reads: Forensic Science Week September 14-20, 2025. Learn more about Forensics & STEM careers at ATF with QR code.
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📅 Mark your calendars!
Our upcoming open houses are your chance to meet the team, explore labs, and learn how to get involved.
🔗 Register now—spots fill fast! #ForensicScienceWeek #OpenHouseReady
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19 Sep 2025
In honor of National Forensic Science Week, we’re highlighting PBSO’s Crime Scene Unit. From processing evidence at crime scenes to using the latest technology in forensic science, our team plays a critical role in seeking justice. Their expertise helps solve cases, support investigations, and bring answers to victims and families. We’re so proud of their dedication, not just to PBSO, but to the entire community we serve. #ForensicScienceWeek
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DEA joined forces with the Ministry of the Interior this week to improve Bulgaria’s ability to detect – and ultimately dismantle – fentanyl and other synthetic opioid threats. #DEAForensics #ForensicScienceWeek @USEmbassySofia @MIBulgaria
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ALT DEA Senior Forensic Chemist Jonathan Duffy trained chemists from the Ministry of the Interior and the National Customs Agency on quick, reliable, and safe fentanyl testing methods.
ALT DEA Senior Forensic Chemist Jonathan Duffy is conducting a hands-on lab review with a Bulgarian chemist.
ALT DEA Senior Forensic Chemist Jonathan Duffy is conducting a hands-on lab review with a Bulgarian chemist.
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Every stain, strand, and shadow tell a story. Step into the scene and see how our investigators turn chaos into clues. 🚨#ForensicScienceWeek #ForensicFocus
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At the DEA's Forensic Sciences Instruction Section, you will learn all of the ways to be both successful and safe as a forensic chemist. #DEAForensics #ForensicScienceWeek
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18 Sep 2025
Happy Nat'l #ForensicScienceWeek! Our Crime Scene Investigators work together with our members of our agency to bring justice to light. From processing scenes to testifying in court, it’s collaboration of science & investigation. It’s not solving crimes, it’s solving them right.
ALT A woman in a police civilian uniform sits at a desk using a microscope. She is smiling at the camera with a computer in the background displaying a police department logo.
ALT Close-up of five spent brass bullet casings lying on a wooden surface.
ALT A woman in a police uniform and blue gloves works in a lab setting, applying chemicals to a sheet of paper on a counter with bottles and lab equipment nearby.
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From bullet trajectories to microscopic markings, our experts decode the language of firearms. Could you crack the case? 🔫#ForensicScienceWeek #BallisticsInAction
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DEA's multiple forensic science disciplines work as a team. At the New England Laboratory, chemists and fingerprint examiners collaborate under one roof. #DEAForensics #ForensicScienceWeek
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17 Sep 2025
🎉 Day 3 of #ForensicScienceWeek is here!
Today’s #CSISixty spotlights Senior Forensic Tech Julie Vevers!
📷📷#RealLifeCSI #CSIUnit #ForensicsLife #Explore
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17 Sep 2025
🧪🔬 It’s National Forensic Science Week! 🔬🧪
Sept. 14–20 we honor the men & women of LVMPD’s Criminalistics Bureau—DNA, Latent Prints, Firearms, Drugs, Toxicology, Trace, & CSI. Your science brings truth to justice every day. #ForensicScienceWeek
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17 Sep 2025
🧪🔬 It’s National Forensic Science Week! 🔬🧪
Sept. 14–20 we honor the men & women of LVMPD’s Criminalistics Bureau—DNA, Latent Prints, Firearms, Drugs, Toxicology, Trace, & CSI. Your science brings truth to justice every day. #ForensicScienceWeek
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17 Sep 2025
It’s National Forensic Science Week!🔬🚔Thinking about a career in forensics or CSI? Internships are the ticket in, hands-on experience is everything. Our CSIs have been where you are and know the path to the lab or courtroom. #ForensicScienceWeek
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ALT Crime scene technician pointing at a piece of glass with multiple bullet holes marked for evidence.
ALT Two crime scene technicians examining and photographing a large shoe impression indoors.
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17 Sep 2025
🔎Behind every case is a story waiting to be told.
Our Crime Scene Unit makes sure that story is preserved—through fingerprints, photographs, and evidence handled with care. Their meticulous work protects the integrity of our investigations and ensures that justice has a voice in the courtroom.
This National Forensic Science Week, we recognize the science, the skill, and the specialists who bring clarity when it matters most!
#ForensicScience #ForensicScienceWeek #RoundRock #Police
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🧪🔬 Happy National Forensic Science Week! 🔬🧪
Sept. 14–20, 2025
We’re proud to shine a spotlight on the incredible work of the LVMPD Criminalistics Bureau during National Forensic Science Week. From collecting evidence in the field to analyzing DNA in the lab, each step helps bring truth to light, support investigations, and serve justice in Southern Nevada.
Here are just a few of the specialized units whose expertise makes a difference every day:
🧬 Biology / DNA (Casework & CODIS/Database Units): Handling evidence from homicides, sexual assaults, robberies, burglaries, and more.
🖐️ Latent Prints: Enhancing and comparing fingerprints (“latent prints”) to known prints, often using AFIS to help identify persons of interest.
🎯 Firearms Detail: Examining firearms and ammunition—matching bullets and casings, and conducting tool‐mark comparisons—to help reconstruct events.
✅ Seized Drugs: Testing and identifying controlled substances to support drug enforcement.
👩🔬 Toxicology: Analyzing biological samples to detect and measure chemicals, poisons, or substances.
🔬 Trace Materials: Examining fibers, hair, paint, glass, and other small but critical evidence to help link people, places, and things.
📸 Crime Scene Investigations (CSI): Including Crime Scene Detail and Photographic Detail, who collect and document evidence where incidents occur.
To the men and women in these units: your dedication, attention to detail, and scientific rigor are essential to every investigation. You help give voices to evidence, clarity to uncertainty, and justice to victims.
Thank you for all you do—and thank you to the community for your trust and support.
#ForensicScienceWeek #ScienceOfJustice #LVMPD #Criminalistics #BehindTheBadge
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17 Sep 2025
Forensic scientists at BCI are celebrating their craft this #ForensicScienceWeek… fighting crime one test tube at a time. Their expertise helps solve crimes and deliver justice across Ohio.
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