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1 results foundAuthor: San Francisco. Office of the Controller. City Services Auditor Title: San Francisco Police Department: Cost Estimates for Achieving Operational Effectiveness in Crime Lab Operations Summary: The Controller's Office presents a report on the San Francisco Police Department Criminalistics Laboratory. The report provides an overview of current criminalistics laboratory operations and estimates the cost of performing this work with city employees as compared to the cost of contracting for these services. We concluded that the five-year projected cost for the City to maintain an operationally effective criminalistics laboratory is $46 million or $53 million depending on the financing structure for the facility improvements. The five-year projected cost for the City to outsource the majority of the caseload to other laboratories is $31 million. The $15 to $21 million cost differential between an in-house scenario and an outsource scenario is almost all entirely attributable to the cost of a relocating the laboratory to a functionally appropriate facility. Over the next Fiscal Year the City should contract for services starting with narcotics testing and backlogged cases in DNA, then gathering information on contracting for firearms testing. This phased approach to contracting will provide the City with experience and information to understand the operational implications of contracting, and time to develop a wide range of new policies and procedures to ensure management control and quality of service. Those policies and procedures include everything from developing secure handling and transfer of evidence, management and costs of priority requests and court testimony by outside contractors. The City can operate and learn from this hybrid model until the start of Fiscal Year 2011-12. At that point the City is compelled to make a decision about budgeting for the $15 to $21 million estimated for the lease, construction and equipments costs of relocating the criminalistics laboratory out of the Hunters Point Naval Shipyard to allow for planned development to proceed. Details: San Francisco: Office of the Controller, 2010. 20p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed October 5, 2017 at: https://archive.org/details/sanfranciscopoli1520sanf Year: 2010 Country: United States URL: https://archive.org/details/sanfranciscopoli1520sanf Shelf Number: 147591 Keywords: Costs of Criminal Justice Crime Laboratories Criminal Investigations Criminalistics |