Forensic Laboratory to be ready by April

THE Forensic Laboratory now under construction in Georgetown may be ready to serve the public by April, Minister of Home Affairs, Mr. Clement Rohee said.He gave the indication in his latest update on the project following many delays and pushing back of completion dates.
Rohee told media operatives that the facility is 95 percent complete and the other five percent of the works include the installation of some very critical and technical pieces of equipment along with some fine works now being done by the contractors.
It was pointed out that the installing of the equipment cannot be done simultaneously with the works contractors are doing and would have to be undertaken when they are finished and are out of the building.
According to Rohee there are some difficulties being experienced, which are contributing to the delays.
“Hopefully, we will be able to get out of those so that we can go on to the next level, which is to ensure that the highly sophisticated pieces of equipment are installed without any hindrance so that the lab can be commissioned before April,” he stated.
Meanwhile, Rohee has expressed displeasure with a police report on the theft of computers from the Forensic Laboratory at Turkeyen.

Not pleased
He said he is not pleased because it does not give him any indication or clear idea of when the computers were stolen from the premises and how.
In response to questions, the minister said it is not his view that the items were taken all at one time but rather “sniffed out” of the premises over a period of time, box by box.
He stated that the security company which was tasked with securing the premises will have to provide answers on how the computers just vanished from the facility.
Rohee said the computers are worth a large amount of money and while there were no special features on them, they would have been specially tailored for the special functions they were to perform.