The 35th In Silico Megabank Research Seminar will be held on Wednesday, October 16.
This Time, we will be welcoming Mr. Satoshi Hirata, Criminal Investigation Laboratory, Miyagi Prefectural Police Headquarters as our lecturer, and he will be speaking on “Duties of Criminal Investigation Laboratory: On DNA Identification”.

・Date/Time: October 16, 2013(Wed.) 17:00‐18:30
・Venue: Conference Room 1(2nd Floor), Tohoku Medical Megabank Organization http://www.megabank.tohoku.ac.jp/english/info/access.html
・Title: Duties of Criminal Investigation Laboratory: On DNA Identification
・Lecturer: Satoshi Hirata (Criminal Investigation Laboratory, Miyagi Prefectural Police Headquarters )

・Abstract: In recent years, the role of objective evidence utilizing scientific technique such as DNA identification is becoming important because it is getting harder to obtain information from the witness due to the increase of crimes of high anonymity and the collapse of the local communities and because the need for objective evidence is increasing more than before in criminal trials due to the introduction of the citizen judge system. There are quite a few cases, including retrials, in which credibility and probative value of scientific evidence become controversial. Above all, the role of such evidence is particularly important in the serious cases for which the citizen judge system might be considered. The following functions are in charge of criminal investigation: National Research Institute of Police Science set up in the National Police Agency, Criminal Investigation Laboratory and Criminal Identification Department in the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department and the Prefectural Police Headquarters, and Identification Section in each police station. These organizations are working on the investigation of objective evidence working closely with detectives engaged in the criminal investigation or according to the request by them. Based on these circumstances, I would like to outline the duties of the criminal investigation laboratory, especially about the principles and methods of DNA identification. Finally, I would like to talk about the police measures such as body identification associated with the East Japan great earthquake disaster.

・Organizer: Yukuto Sato, Masao Nagasaki