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The government has approved the award of a contract totaling US$1.8 million to equip the forensic laboratory.Gail Teixeira, Advisor to the President, announced that the Cabinet has given its “no objection” to the award of the contract in 14 “lots”.She said that the contract is for the supply, delivery and installation of the equipment together with training in the use of the equipment. The contract also includes the supply, delivery and installation of “laboratory furnishings”.The price tag for the construction of the laboratory is estimated at more than the $450 million price tag that was anticipated, given modifications which have to be done to accommodate modern equipment.The modifications are being done on the advice of Cheryl Corbin, the Director of the Barbados Forensic Sciences Centre, who also tasked with providing the government with a list of equipment that would be needed to undertake essential services at the lab and to provide the specifications for those equipment.The facility will contain a toxicology lab, an area for analyzing trace evidence,Jerseys From China, a chemistry lab to test drugs and a serology lab to carry out blood tests.The forensic lab is being built under the US$19.5 million Citizen Security Programme, which has a component for capacity building and modernization of the Guyana Police Force.This component objective is to transform the Guyana Police Force from an incident-driven, reactive institution to one that relies on the analysis of patterns, incidents and problems in order to understand the characteristics and causes of incidents. |
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